Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem: finding enough skilled craftsmen. Neon cannot be mass-produced; each piece of tubing must be heated and then bent by hand. There are only a few hundred neon artisans left in the country, and their average age is 50. Now, however, a dozen schools have opened to train newcomers. Architects are turning to neon to ornament postmodern designs, especially by tracing structural shapes and highlighting details. Slender ribs of blue neon provide elegant illumination for the walkway of a building in New York City's financial district. Uptown, Steven Panzarino, a New York City architect, is using neon...
Betty and Sonny Gosnell were just sitting down in their living room with an insurance agent to sign a policy for health coverage when the twilight turned pitch-black and a dreadful noise broke the evening stillness. "It sounded like a big, huge-engined train coming," recalled Mrs. Gosnell. "Then you heard things around you crumbling, snapping. It sounded like popcorn popping...
...Love), but Dylan appeared to have given himself over to political conservatism and the rigors of religious conversion. First he adopted fundamentalist Christianity, then an Orthodox Judaism that made him sound on some recent records like a half-delirious cabala student looking for a guest shot on Soul Train...
...will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which had not been open for long, or more quickly by train to Fall River and thence by water...
...cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...