Word: ironization
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...within weeks his supplies were exhausted. Amid awful scenes in which people walked for days only to die, Mahalanabis and his team drew on their experiences in Calcutta. They formed an assembly line to weigh out correct proportions of rehydration ingredients in plastic bags, sealed the bags with an iron, and mixed the powder with water so patients' friends and relatives could collect it in mugs. "We converted the library at Johns Hopkins into a factory," Mahalanabis, now 79, recalls. "We brought in drums with side-taps, filled them up and sent them to the field. We were essentially using...
...chairman of the opposition Democratic Party's international-relations committee. "He makes friends." But Ban can also be tough. In the face of opposition from his own diplomats, Ban reformed Seoul's foreign ministry, replacing a promotion system based on seniority with a meritocratic one. He's an "iron fist in a velvet glove," says an aide...
...Iron Mike's Back...
...Cleese and Chapman, whose senior revue was directed by Trevor Nunn, were stars from their first auditions, with John doing "a routine of trampling on hamsters" (Pythons always had an animal fetish) and Chapman, in pre-med as Miller had been, impersonating "a man with iron fingertips being pulled offstage by an enormous magnet." Chapman's gift for physical comedy blossomed in a sketch about a man who wrestles himself - a bit reprised in Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl...
...Across the entire spectrum, loud or quiet, there is a sense of familiarity with Ward, and it is a comfort that transcends the stories and sounds of his songs. It’s not so much the plaintive fragility of those with whom he is often compares (Beam of Iron & Wine, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse), so much as a vulnerability we all share, channeled through stories with which we can all relate...