Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
White House advisers are concerned that the housing subsidy could lead to a flood of relief bills for other ailing industries, such as autos and steel. Though President Reagan would like to veto the measure, he may sign it anyway. He has rejected only three bills so far, and he may not be anxious to mortgage his own reputation if it appears his veto might be overturned...
...transformed immediately into Elliott. He can act and react. He's gifted and malleable. He gave an incredibly controlled performance." Mature and childlike by turns, utterly unaffected yet supremely resourceful as an actor, Thomas is largely responsible for making scenes between a boy and a pile of steel and foam rubber glisten with feeling...
...King Kong, then in 1978 set up a small shop in Los Angeles. He explained the construction of E.T. to TIME'S Joseph Pilcher, beginning with sketches and a series of clay models for screen testing for Spielberg before building the creature. Finally, Rambaldi made an aluminum and steel skeleton and then laboriously built up a musculature of fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber, layer upon layer. Each layer represents a muscle responsible for a body movement or facial expression, and each is connected to a mechanical control or electronic servomechanism. At his most complicated, with Rambaldi...
Other Sunbelt states are worse off. The unemployment rate in Alabama has reached 14%, the highest in the South, because of cutbacks in construction and manufacturing. The state prepared for another blow last week when U.S. Steel, which has already furloughed 3,500 of the 8,200 union workers at its huge Fairfield works, announced that it is considering closing the plant entirely. In Polk County, Fla., unemployment has hit 13% because of slumping demand for fertilizer made from phosphate mined in the area...