Word: boneyard
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...with a cemetery visible in the background. Two days later, images of Hastert's Jabba the Hut--like visage, at a fund-raising event in the company of President Bush, are splashed across papers. With Bush's approval rating hovering around 40%, we have a suggestion: bring back the boneyard...
...LICKS Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, who last month showcased his Rock Your World line of hot sauces, includes a guitar pick with both the chipotle-and-habanero-infused Boneyard Brew and the Mango Peach Tango sauce...
...film--what its maker calls "a gangster, hip-hop, samurai eastern western"--is about the gang that couldn't shoot straight and the killer for hire who can't stop shooting. The gang is a boneyard of Mafia dinosaurs in North Jersey (Tony Soprano's turf). They stare numbly at old cartoons and are months behind in the rent for their clubhouse. Next to them, Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is both modern and ageless. His cyber-age artillery and acute aim make him the ideal hit man. Between gigs he plays hip-hop CDs in whatever car he has stolen...
...Navy wants to spend more than $2 billion a copy for a new class of 30 attack submarines even as it scraps dozens of existing attack subs, many designed to stay at sea another decade. The Air Force is dispatching hundreds of fully functional warplanes to its Arizona boneyard while it pays $188 million apiece for 339 single-seat F-22 warplanes...
...plenty more candidates for the boneyard. Who would miss, say, the puny Chevy Metro, the unfashionable Buick Riviera or that boat on wheels the Cadillac Eldorado, outmoded cars that drain marketing resources. The Oldsmobile division, whose eroding customer base has put it on GM's hit list since the 1992 restructuring, still breathes...