Word: ironization
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...catalogue reads, "Add a fun and festive air to your holiday table. Our exclusive reindeer are handmade of iron. Set of two, $29.95." Why not add the weight of a small truck to your holiday table by buying an army of 66 iron reindeer? Or, for those who like the glitter of gold and the freshness of fruit, a collection of 200 pieces of gold-painted fruit? Or the gift that keeps on giving--50 years' worth of the Museum of Modern Art's 4-foot wide `Stendig' calendar. All from Crate and Brattle, 48 Brattle Street...
...currently working. Broadest is perhaps the more salient and unambiguous of these two terms; best after all, conjures up methodological pyrotechnics and irreducible antagonism between different nations and disciplinary traditions. But who can match Larry in his capacity to move incisively and yet serenely from later prehistory to Iron Age, from Carthage to the Euphrates. Even more impressive in some ways, is his conceptual and disciplinary range. The need to combine philogical and archaeological approaches and considerations he learned already at Harvard. But at Chicago he has gone much further, as I have had the gratifying opportunity...
Hung says the most common questions she gets are about weight loss or gain, low fat diets and how to get specific nutrients like protein and iron. Her advice to students wanting to have a healthy diet is to base their eating on a food pyramid--a refinement of the old four food group recommendation...
...Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands at the land bridge between Europe and Asia). If Keegan spends too little time on war in the 20th century, his unusual design -- a layering of material in chapters called "Stone," "Flesh," "Armies," "Iron" and so on -- permits him to range across time and distance to brilliant comparative effect. He roams from the Japanese suppression of firearms during the Tokugawa seclusion (an early success of gun $ control, unrepeatable and totalitarian) to the Aztec "Feast of the Flaying of Men"; from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz...
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