Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reputation for being a tireless teacher of young writers -- and a tireless everything else, for that matter. It is a rare closing night that does not find Joe at his computer terminal, mulling over some late-breaking story, raising questions, smoothing transitions, apparently impervious to the late hour. That iron-man constitution should serve him well as the leader of TIME's Olympic team. Joining Ferrer for the task is senior editor Stephen Koepp, a ski enthusiast on a break from his duties in the Business section...
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...
...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...