Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arangio describes a Bow where TV sporting events were turned up loud and Black Sabbath metal anthems, such as "Iron Man" blasted away. "There were bikers from the second half of the bar all the way to the back," he says. Now all that's changed...
...bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them up and spend them." His stores use about 400 sheets a year...
...moving to New York City in 1968, he came to public attention with a proposal to paint a series of haunting silhouettes of demolished landmarks on building walls near the historic structures' former sites. In his first actual mural, on an all-but-blank side wall of a cast-iron structure, he painted windows and trim that uncannily duplicated the building's street front. The painting has since become as much of a landmark as its surroundings...
...came down, he advocated a go- slow policy on unification. And when the unity drive picked up steam, he attacked Kohl's claim that it could be financed without straining national resources and raising taxes. What Lafontaine underestimated was the depth of feeling on both sides of the old Iron Curtain in favor of merging the two Germanys -- and with that his strategy backfired. His effectiveness as a campaigner was also undermined by near tragedy: in April a deranged woman plunged a knife into his neck, just missing the carotid artery. The assassination attempt forced Lafontaine into a two-month...
...coats the steps with ice -- a simple matter of spraying them with water -- and swings paint cans from the banister. Christmas ornaments are strewn about the floor like little land mines, a blowtorch becomes a flamethrower, and a hot iron is transformed into a ballistic missile. Home Alone director Chris Columbus notes that all the dirty tricks can be rigged up by a 10-year- old with simple household supplies, and all have what he calls "kid logic...