Word: ironization
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...documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the band that a year earlier had won Segundo a Grammy and generally elevated him and a handful of his compatriots from obscure relics of Cuba's golden age to international superstars, icons of the newly rediscovered grace and warmth behind the iron veil of the Cuban embargo...
Though the janitor’s contract is not under negotiation now, Touborg said University officials and union representatives meet regularly to iron out problems...
...illegible message on pink stationery) and directed me to a contact in the multi-ethnic town of Tuzla. There I found a man named Fra Peter in the postmodern hellishness of Tuzla’s Franciscan stronghold, a concrete building replete with bomb-proof glass and giant iron gates that obscure passers-by’s view of the many statues of St. Francis, Mary and Jesus inside the immaculate garden. The scribbles-on-pink won me a proper ticket from him, and at 2 a.m., I returned to the monastery, which was even more spooky at night...
Queen said that Yard Operations has made a complete sweep of the Yard dorms to ensure that all first-floor windows will lock at six inches, rather than opening fully. Unlike upperclass Houses, Yard dorms lack iron grates on their windows...
DIED. KATHARINE HEPBURN, 96, brainy, glamorous, iron-willed icon of Hollywood's golden age, whose record four best-actress Academy Awards highlighted a screen career that spanned more than 60 years and included such films as Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen and The Philadelphia Story; at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A highbrow with even loftier cheekbones, Hepburn's mannish dress and assertiveness on- and offscreen cost her popularity early on, but eventually became trademarks and made her a role model to generations of female fans...