Word: stainless-steel
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...thick windowpanes flanking the barred door. This was not the Ritz in London, one of his favorite jet-set stops, nor his art-rilled office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue. John Zachary De Lorean's dream of soaring to industrial fame on the gull-winged glitter of his stainless-steel sports car had turned into a nightmare...
...smart newlyweds of a generation ago, their home, the first rung on the ladder of upward mobility, was almost inevitably furnished with "Danish modern," complete with Marimekko textiles, stainless-steel cutlery and plain white tableware. There was no better way to show modernity. Recently, however, modern Scandinavian design seems to have vanished from public awareness in the U.S. Much of it has been poorly adapted and absorbed by U.S. mass culture. In addition, it is no longer modern to be modern...
...Français Maestro Banchet puts on a gala performance for two seatings a night, six nights a week. From noon to midnight he prowls the stainless-steel corridors of his ultramodern kitchen, setting a whirlwind pace for his 32-member staff. "Sacrebleu! Sacrebleu!" he shouts at a sous-chef when something goes wrong. One minute he is throwing whole fistfuls of truffles into a twelve-quart mixing bowl. Next he starts a pheasant paté, followed by a lobster and crayfish mousse. Tasting each creation in turn, he makes several mid-course corrections, adding a little salt here...
During his successful four-year campaign to persuade the British government to cough up $156 million in loans and grants, maverick Automaker John Zachary De Lorean confidently predicted that American customers in 1982 would buy 20,000 of the sporty stainless-steel autos manufactured by De Lorean Motor Co. (price tag: $25,000). De Lorean, however, had not reckoned on the continued disastrous slump in U.S. auto sales. Since last June, only half of the 7,000 De Loreans shipped to the U.S. from the company's manufacturing site in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have been sold. As a result...
...gleaming, stainless-steel machine is now the focus in every Fromex store. Customers watch as the film goes in one end of the processor and prints come out the other. Says Dede Frome: "People get excited seeing pizza made, so we figured they would like seeing their pictures getting printed...