Word: ironization
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...Their criminal specialties are small time: purse snatchings, storefront stickups, car thefts, burglaries. What distinguishes the offenses, however, is the viciousness with which they are carried out. When a robbery victim gave up his wallet to Cuban attackers but refused to yield his ring, they hung him from an iron fence by his hand. The ring came off; so did a finger. When a dog snapped at a passing Marielito, the man retaliated by stabbing its owner 17 times. "These are absolutely the meanest, most vicious criminals we've ever encountered," says Los Angeles Police Detective Tony Alvarez. "They...
...English-speaking electrician from the Quebec mining town of Baie Comeau, Mulroney was a labor negotiator before becoming president of the U.S.-owned Iron Ore Company of Canada. He insists that he will spell out specific policies only when Trudeau calls elections, as he must by February 1985. Generally, Mulroney favors increased defense expenditures, incentives to businessmen and investors, and the maintenance of major social programs. But he is also committed to a balanced federal budget and reduced government spending. He has yet to explain how he intends to reconcile these contradictory objectives. "Certainly there will be restraint, but spending...
...worried. Selectman Charles Brown, whose son went to college on his pig earnings, says, "If it's pigs this time, will it be cows the next?" More likely it will be junked cars on lawns, a perennial ruburban sculpture form, at least as prevalent as the whitewashed iron jockeys in the suburban landscape...
...short of the expected 300,000, many of whom undoubtedly stayed away because of a terrorist act two days before John Paul's arrival. An anticlerical group calling itself Arrete Cures (Stop Priests) exploded an 11-lb. bomb just outside the grotto, shattering a 6-ft.-tall, cast-iron statue. There were no injuries, but the group threatened further violence (none occurred...
...atrium at the foot of its Madison Avenue building. But now the whole zoning program is running into serious problems. Citizen groups complain that some plazas are so poorly designed and maintained that they discourage public use. At the Harley Hotel, which is co-owned by Multimillionaire Harry Helmsley iron spikes were installed in seating areas, which kept people out of the public space. After a protest last month, the spikes were removed. Builders of an office tower on the fashionable East Side were given permission to construct additional floors on the condition that they improve the nearby subway station...