Word: acidic
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...Mystic Funnies" starts out with the story of "The Hipman," another of Crumb's acid portrayals of a modern, frustrated, vulgar American. Sporting a mullet and a T-shirt that says "Empire Builder" on it, Hipman drives around in his one-man European car, worrying about how hip he is. Since this is a Crumb comic, a big-legged, big-chested Amazon soon puts him out of sorts, getting him in trouble with an even more diminutive, backwards-baseball-capped, trash-talking "gangsta'" named "Fishlips." Every era has received a similar razzing at the hands of Mr. Crumb. Fritz...
Although he found the jazz scene difficult to break into, he was eventually able to perform frequently as part of Lunar, an acid jazz group he formed with other musicians he met there...
...acid-test day at the Pakistan Military Academy, an event dreaded by every student. For nearly two years, the cadets have learned to run a mile in six minutes, perform endless rounds of sit-ups and push-ups, climb into a boxing ring to battle their fellow junior officers. The Acid Test is the most grueling exercise of all. The academy is in the Himalayan foothills north of Islamabad, but the weather is still brutal: 95[degree]F by midday. First the cadets have to traverse a mountain carrying logs on their shoulders. Then they run nine miles with full...
...Angeles. After Navy service he joined an Actors Studio class that included Marlon Brando (whose corruptive brother he would play in On the Waterfront) and helped to free stage and film performance from the kingdom of nice. But Steiger was no mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker's death-camp survivor, he went for earned rage, not martyrdom. Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar...
...promise and can economically transform coal into diesel and gasoline it may tip the geopolitical scales by reducing the dependence on oil of coal-rich countries like China, the U.S. and Germany. At the same time it could significantly decrease pollution blamed for global warming and acid rain. Many countries don't use imported oil for power generation, but depend on it for transport. That will change if the cost of converting coal directly into liquid fuels can compete with that of refining crude oil. Nanotechnology may be the long-awaited breakthrough. "It has improved the economics of the process...