Word: plating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Emmett Ashford, 65, first black major league baseball umpire, an ebullient Californian whose booming voice and animated gestures behind the plate delighted the fans at American League games from 1966 to 1970; of a heart attack; in Marina Del Rey, Calif...
Among the bullion, jewels, plate, rare marble and statuary the fleet brought back, the most celebrated work of art was a group of four antique gilt-bronze horses that Dandolo gave to his republic. They were hoisted, as supreme emblems of conquest, onto pedestals above the entrance to the San Marco Basilica. There they remained for some 750 years, except for a period when they were stolen by Napoleon, and when they were taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world...
...greatness of the play lies not between the lines but splattered across the stage like an overturned plate of spaghetti. While Innaurato's characters are essentially naturalistic, their flamboyant mode of self-expression renders them larger-than-life, small people who blow themselves up to brontosaurean dimensions...
...America's Phil Mahre, skiing with four screws and a metal plate in an ankle he had shattered just a year ago on the same mountain, winning a silver in the slalom, trailing only the mighty Stenmark...
...department performs several odd jobs regularly. "Someone will leave his lights on in a garage, and we'll check the plate and sticker lists, or someone will park in a professor's space, or students will park on the street and get tagged or towed. We deal with all these things," he says...