Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1980s. By 1988, however, she abandoned clothing design to concentrate on what seemed like an impossible artistic ambition: giving metal objects the look of some of the shifting and sinuous forms she saw in underwater visions while scuba diving. Somehow she brought it off: Lam can give steel the look of draped silk...
Eventually, Lam switched from bronze to stainless steel. She says she still prefers bronze, but stainless steel can be turned into satisfactorily sensuous shapes, and many customers prefer it because it does not need to be polished. Also, designing in steel gave her a much wider choice of manufacturers--honest ones. She chose Wing Sheng, a company in her old hometown, Hong Kong, which owns factories throughout China...
...pony-tailed hippies, all you see is a whir of cellophane and custard. When the camera slides down the back of the alien like Fred Flintstone leaving the quarry at quitting time, we can only think of Spielberg's T. Rex--a death blow to the spit-and-steel horror of the original alien beast. Which brings...
...certainly had a hard time cracking the Japanese market, which doesn't seem to want our cars, computers, film or steel. Don't even mention rice. But last week we finally found something the Japanese truly need: made-in-the-U.S.A. management style. It's the brutally honest kind, which has littered boardrooms with the carcasses of middle managers--and incidentally, enabled us to thrive in a viciously competitive global economy. Europeans are now buying it by the caseload, but Japan has been a country in denial. Its tattered stock market and eight-year malaise have left this once...
...neglect to provide her with a spaceship of fools who refuse to believe her warnings of impending carnage. He has even given Ripley a soul sister (Winona Ryder) to bond with. O.K., she's a robot, but she's got a heart of gold as well as buns of steel...