Word: ironization
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There are many paths to domestic bliss. For us, it was an innovative iron and some curvy plates. TIME previewed dozens of new products set to debut March 12 at the 2006 International Home & Housewares Show in Chicago. Here are some of our favorites...
THIS ONE HAS LEGS If you leave the Oliso iron ($99) face down and remove your hand, it springs up to rest about an inch off the board to prevent scorching, tipping and awkward wrist twisting. Touch the handle, and the legs retract...
...Harvard, I took an African dance class with the Ensemble’s current instructor, Joh Camara, and I was amazed by his djembe playing. The djembe is kind of an hourglass-shaped drum; it has goatskin on the top, and there’s an iron ring on the rim. It has a really distinctive, sharp sound. I’d never seen djembe playing. I’d only seen Nigerian drumming. So I bought a djembe from him, and he gave me a few lessons. It’s an amazing instrument because it?...
...having tons of fun trying to figure out how to make the noise,” he recalls. “The most creative suggestion involved a cleaver, a cutting board, and heads of cabbage. In the end we finally settled with scraping a music stand against an iron pole.” Green refuses to class one musical genre as superior to another, and rejects the attempts of those who do. Instead, Green prefers to focus on the essential similarity between opera and musical theater. He emphasizes that an open mind is all that is needed to appreciate opera...
...freestyle moguls competition, thereby refuting, for the moment anyway, Rudge's remark that Canadians tend to gag "on the big day." Under bright lights accented by the moonlit sky at Sauze d'Oulx, top-ranked Heil performed a 360 off the first jump and her trademark backflip with iron cross (skis crossed, tips down) off the second. "I've been feeling the pressure pretty much the last eight months," said Heil, 22. "The most important thing was to be in the moment and just let it all out." At the 2002 Games, Heil placed fourth, missing a bronze medal...