Word: ironization
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...STEPPING DOWN. PHIL KNIGHT, 66, Nike co-founder and master marketer; as CEO of the world's biggest athletic-shoe company, effective next month; in Beaverton, Oregon. Knight and the late Bill Bowerman started out in the 1960s making soles with a waffle iron and selling the shoes out of a car trunk. Knight, who will remain chairman, will be replaced by William Perez, CEO of S.C. Johnson...
...breach the mosque and allow Iraqi Intervention Forces to search it, the U.S. employed a Bradley to smash the compound's walls after 25-mm cannon rounds failed to dent its iron gates. The Wolf Pack searched and secured a three-story building, taking a high spot overlooking the mosque and its minaret. At night it almost felt safe inside, but daylight brought the snipers and insurgent cells out into the streets. The attack started in the east but was soon joined by shooting from the north. From three edges of the roof, the soldiers fired at the insurgents...
...changes when Bob receives a communiqué calling for Mr. Incredible’s help in a top-secret mission on a mysterious island. The mission eventually pulls the entire Incredibles family into a battle to save the world from their nemesis, Syndrome (Jason Lee). Writer-director Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Simpsons) has created a film that skillfully blends the excitement of a superhero movie with a carefully-measured dose of family film sensitivity...
...scratch the indie label entirely.) The Postal Service project was hyped from the outset and a prepackaged audience greeted the LP at its release. Some of the songs were so good that they began to make the rounds in dorm rooms and on soundtracks (witness Iron and Wine’s pretty cover of “Such Great Heights,” featured in Garden State). This new deal with the USPS doesn’t change anything. First, after stumbling upon such unexpected crossover success, it’s perfectly understandable that the band...
...dotting the Eastern seaboard. The Boston branch is housed in a regal medieval-style “castle” which dates back to 1891 and is officially known as the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets. Designed to withstand siege, the building features a drawbridge, triple-plate iron doors and flanking turrets that enabled guards to sweep every inch of exterior wall with crossfire...