There is no narrative in the 1971 picture of the interior of an oven, just the white-speckled black enamel with a bit of food stain on the steel racks.

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Triumphant, she flopped it out onto the enamel, black-green and slimed.

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The watch survived, though the white enamel face turned black and the metal gearing softened so that it no longer ticked.

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