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polyethylene
polyethylene , widely used plastic . It is a polymer of ethylene , CH 2 [symbol]CH 2 , having the formula (-CH 2 -CH 2 -) n , and is produced at high pressures and temperatures in the presence of any one of several catalysts , depending on the desired properties for the finished product. Polyet... Read more
Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft 1909-90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City's first glass curtain-wall skyscraper (1952), which has been widely imitated. Among his other works a... Read more
fiberglass
fiberglass thread made from glass. It is made by forcing molten glass through a kind of sieve, thereby spinning it into threads. Fiberglass is strong, durable, and impervious to many caustics and to extreme temperatures. For those qualities, fabrics woven from the glass threads are widely used for ... Read more
polyester
polyester synthetic fiber, produced by the polymerization of the product formed when an alcohol and organic acid react. The outstanding characteristic of polyesters is their ability to resist wrinkling and to spring back into shape when creased. In addition, polyesters have good dimensional stabili... Read more
upholstery
upholstery general term for household fittings, hangings, curtains, cushions, and covers. It refers to stuffed, padded, and spring-cushioned furniture, such as chairs and sofas, or to the usually decorative materials and fabrics that cover them. The first furniture upholstery was probably leather, ... Read more
brocade
brocade , fabric, originally silk, generally reputed to have been developed to a high state of perfection in the 16th and 17th cent. in France, Italy, and Spain. In China the weaving of silk, which dates from the Shang dynasty, developed into complex patterns including moiré, damask, and broc... Read more
Douglas William Jerrold
Douglas William Jerrold , 1803-57, English humorist and playwright. His plays Blackeyed Susan (1829) and Time Works Wonders (1845) were highly successful. Jerrold is best known, however, for his contributions to Punch, collected as Punch's Letters to His Son (1843) and Mrs. Caudle's Curtain... Read more
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still 1904-80, American painter, b. Grandin, N.Dak. Still was a pioneer in the use of the mural-sized canvas. He painted vast, thick curtains of intense color, jaggedly torn to reveal other equally intense color areas. His work combines the gesture of abstract expressionism with a relian... Read more
Kenneth Peacock Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan , 1927-80, English drama critic, author, and theatrical executive, b. Birmingham, England. During the 1950s, while writing for The Observer, Tynan was widely regarded as Britain's most brilliant, insightful, and influential drama critic. He espoused a new theatrical realism b... Read more
cold war
cold war term used to describe the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the Western powers and the Communist bloc from the end of World War II until 1989. Of worldwide proportions, the conflict was tacit in the ideological differences between communism and capitalist democracy . ... Read more

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Iron Curtain
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History IRON CURTAIN "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...five years. Churchill's metaphorical iron curtain brought an end to the uncomfortable Soviet-Anglo-Amer... Read more
Curtain
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...sometimes misapplied to the curtain set on the stage itself. Two other curtains in the proscenium are the advertisement curtain and the safety curtain , or iron . The former appeared in...same purpose. The safety curtain itself was first installed...fire. It consisted of an ... Read more
iron lung
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body iron lung While ‘iron curtain’ has a provenance that is clear, the origins of the term ‘iron lung’ are uncertain. First records...contain the human torso. In 1926 his first iron lung (perhaps named for the iron of the... Read more
Iron
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Iron, see SAFETY CURTAIN . Read more
Radio Free Europe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...purpose was to broadcast news to countries behind the Iron Curtain during the cold war . In 1975, it was merged with Radio...Free Europe (1958); A. A. Michie, Voices through the Iron Curtain (1963); D. Shanor, The New Voice of Radio Free Europe... Read more
cold war
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...differences between communism and capitalist democracy . The Iron Curtain and Containment Mutual suspicion had long existed between...of an implacable threat that lay behind a Communist iron curtain. The United States, taking the lead against the expansion... Read more
Fulton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Mar. 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous iron curtain speech at Westminster College there. The college was...Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on the lifting of the iron curtain, and a 1996 speech by former British prime minister... Read more
Containment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...repeating the theme publicly in his 5 March 1945, “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri. George Kennan...the “liberation” of countries behind the Iron Curtain) frequently condemned it as too passive. Receiving an... Read more
Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...artworks such as Running Fence and Valley Curtain. Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, who is...shops. His first major foray was his Iron Curtain — Wall of Oil Barrels, which he...Australian coastline near Sydney. The Valley Curtain, built in the Grand Hogback Mountain... Read more
Berlin Tunnel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...difficult-to-obtain military intelligence, as well as information about scientific and political developments behind the Iron Curtain. The brainchild of the CIA, the Berlin Tunnel aimed to collect Soviet intelligence passed along an underground hub of... Read more

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Iron Curtain
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History IRON CURTAIN IRON CURTAIN, a phrase made popular by the former...Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...East." The expression "behind the iron curtain" conjured an image of "captive peoples... Read more
iron curtain
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military iron curtain (usually the Iron Curtain ) the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. Read more
”Iron Curtain” speech
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ”Iron Curtain” speech an address given by former British Prime Minister Winston...spread of Soviet communism, which he believed had spread an “iron curtain” across Eastern Europe. Read more
curtain
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...century, and originally a reprimand given behind bed curtains). curtain-raiser an entertainment or other event happening just...denote a short opening piece performed before a play). curtain wall a fortified wall around a medieval castle, typically one linking towers together. See also bamboo ... Read more
bamboo curtain
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable bamboo curtain a political and economic barrier between China and non-Communist countries, on the model of iron of Chancery . Read more
iron
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...revived by Hitler in 1939. Iron Crown of Lombardy the hereditary...called from having a circlet of iron inserted, reputed to have...of the nails of the Cross. Iron Curtain a notional barrier separating...Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the ... Read more
metal structures
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...conservatories, railway-stations, and other structures using iron and glass. ( Sir) William Fairbairn (1789–1874...out his important On the Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building Purposes . Badger's illustrated Catalogue of Cast-Iron Architecture (1865) was also a remarkable compendium. ... Read more
Ellis, Peter
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Liverpool. Oriel Chambers, Water Street (1864), has a cast-iron frame supporting shallow brick-vaulted floors and stone-faced...building at 16 Cook Street (1866) has a rear elevation of iron and glass with a spiral staircase set within an iron-and-glass curtain-wall that is remarkably advanced for ... Read more
industrialized building
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Mass-produced building components were available from C18, while the iron-foundries made many and varied artefacts (e.g. balcony-fronts, balusters , crests , railings, etc.). Cast-iron Greek Doric columns (far cheaper than stone and easy to make...Barry employed mass-produced metal window-frames and ... Read more
Truman Doctrine
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Winston Churchill had termed the "iron curtain." Although it was specifically...Press, 1972. Harbutt, Fraser J. The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins...War ; Greece, Relations with ; Iron Curtain ; Marshall Plan . Read more

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Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/22/2008; 234 words ; Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War. Patrick Wright...Prof. Wright is concerned with the 'iron curtain' both as a metaphor and a political reality...pictures' which 'helped to maintain the Iron Curtain in people's minds since 1946'. To him... Read more
Rusting Iron Curtain. (movement toward reform in East Germany)
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/10/1989; ; 700+ words ; Rusting Iron Curtain MUNICH--The dramatic events taking place behind the rusting Iron Curtain have been filling the television screens and front pages of newspapers... Read more
Iron Curtain.(End of cold war between capitalist nations and Eastern communist nations)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/22/2000; 105 words ; ...After Germany's defeat, Europe remained divided by an Iron Curtain that separated Soviet-dominated nations from nations allied with the United States. All along the Iron Curtain, U.S. and allied military forces faced Soviet forces... Read more
L.A. law heads for East Berlin as lawyer sets up outpost behind the Iron Curtain. (Carl Andres of Baker and McKenzie) (Newsmakers)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 5/28/1990; ; 478 words ; ...East Berlin as lawyer sets up outpost behind fallen Iron Curtain One of the first L.A. lawyers to cast his eyes eastward...amp; McKenzie's third office behind the now crumbled Iron Curtain, Andres says. The-1,500-attorney law firm with 49 offices... Read more
Out of the East: two shows recently introduced American audiences to the stylistic freedoms and provocative content that infused East Central European art after the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...East Central European art after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. During the late '80s, we in the West watched as Europe's historic revolutions replaced the Iron Curtain with proscenium drapery. Riveted to our television screens... Read more
Pools will raise Iron Curtain.
Newspaper article from: Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England); 9/13/2007; 360 words ; HARTLEPOOL United will reinstall the iron curtain defence that was the hallmark of last season's promotion, Ian Butterworth insists. Assistant boss Butterworth, a Premiership defender... Read more
Party brewing up in Czechoslovakia as Iron Curtain falls. ("Friends of Beer" political party)
Magazine article from: Modern Brewery Age; 2/26/1990; 243 words ; Party brewing up in Czechoslovakia as Iron Curtain falls Beer lovers in the famed brewery town of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, have decided to mix party politics with the politics of... Read more
Socialist Shakespeare productions in Kadar-regime Hungary; Shakespeare behind the iron curtain.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 140 words ; 9780773447462 Socialist Shakespeare productions in Kadar-regime Hungary; Shakespeare behind the iron curtain. Schandl, Veronika. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 239 pages $109.95 Hardcover PR3108 In an era of cleverly disguised dissent, performances... Read more
If it's Tuesday, this must be Moscow: wherein a group of interested Americans takes a whirlwind tour behind the shredding Iron Curtain. (includes related interview with Gennadi Gerasimov)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/20/1990; ; 700+ words ; Wherein a group of interested Americans takes a whirlwind tour behind the shredding Iron Curtain and discovers how much has changed-and how much has not. HALFWAY through NATIONAL REVIEW's ten-day, five-capital tour of Europe... Read more
CZECH REPUBLIC: MINISTERS COMMEMORATE FALL OF IRON CURTAIN.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 10/25/2004; 60 words ; According to Prague Post , three former foreign ministers commemorated the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain at a meeting at the German Embassy in Prague. Hans-Dietrich Genscher from Germany; Ronald Rumas from France; and Jiri... Read more