Word: ironed
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Moreover, approximately 94 percent of meteorites are rocky, with the remainder being of the nickel-iron variety. The distinctive metallic appearance of nickel-iron meteorites makes them easier to spot, says Marvin...
...stage perhaps takes understated symbolism just a little too far. Props, costumes, walls--everything is white, the white of outmoded Edwardian prudery. An iron lattice like the bars of a cage, also white, forms a backdrop. By providing so much evidence of the family's obsession with respectability, the stage manager insults the viewer's intelligence...
After the arrival of the red biplane in the ordered midst of the family, however, the stage takes on a surrealistic disarray. The uprooted plants in the greenhouse float eerily in mid-air, while the displaced iron lattice remains at its impossible, displaced angle, leaving a gaping hole in the barrier between the isolated little community and the outside world...
Vinegars -- herbed, balsamic, homemade, you name it -- took on added cachet as American chefs continued their ceaseless quest for less fattening flavor agents. The shelves of specialty stores groaned with an ever increasing array of novelty mustards, oils and sauces, including a typically macho salsa concocted by that iron-mouthed amateur, actor Paul Newman...
...reality catches up with their dreams. The vision may be the glory-driven daring of a Saddam Hussein, who foolishly tried to extend his rule by conquest and plunder, or the seize-the-day bravery of a Boris Yeltsin, who struggled to free a society from seven decades of iron ideology. But always behind the action is an idea, a passionate sense of what is eternal in human nature and % also of what is coming but as yet unseen, just over the horizon...