Word: cannonism
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Robert Dilger's life revolves around the machinery of war. A former fighter pilot who flew combat missions in Viet Nam, he had persuaded the Air Force to adapt a 30-mm Gatling antitank cannon to its A-10 Thunderbolt close air- support aircraft...
Dilger's 8-ft. cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture...
...European metalwork, the Schlusselfelder Ship, made for a local burgher in 1503 by, some historians suppose, Albrecht Durer's father. It is a huge drinking cup in the form of an armed three-masted carrack, nearly 3 ft. high, done in silver gilt, complete down to the last cannon and sheave, its decks and rigging swarming with 74 tiny sailors and passengers. In detail if not, perhaps, in sculptural grace, it out-Cellinis Cellini...
Police used water cannon and tear gas against 200 students, most of them white, at the University of Cape Town who carried placards that said, "Botha is a terrorist...
AKIRA ONOZUKA, 35, has spent the past 13 years at the Miyake Design Studio, whence he was recently dispatched to Cannon Mills in North Carolina on a textile project. "I met the president of Cannon, and he looked at me kind of funny," Onozuka remembers. "Then I went into the factory and I saw why. All the workers were dressed like me." Onozuka's Odds On line, now in its first season, shows not only his affection for well-worn American work wear but also a witty and idiosyncratic eye for fabrication and shaping that make his clothes look...