Word: ironization
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...held since the military took charge in 1964. Though Montoro used to decry the heavyhanded police tactics of Brazil's authoritarian federal government before his election, he found last week that he also had to call out military police when a surging crowd of demonstrators ripped away the iron fence outside the capitol building...
...iron began many centuries ago," declared Catalan Sculptor Julio González in the 1930s. "It is high time that this metal cease to be a murderer and the simple instrument of an overly mechanical science. Today the door is opened wide for this material to be-at last!- forged and hammered by the peaceful hands of artists." Prophetic words, and it was largely González's own work that made them true. The great shift in sculptural history during this century, away from "closed" (solid) to "open" (constructed) form, became possible through the use of iron. Gonz...
Stephen King's characters live in places like Libertyville, Penn., and travel to Pittsburgh for a special trip. They drink Iron City beer, eat Campbell's Chunky Beef Soup and spread their sandwiches on Wonder Bread. They belong to Weight Watchers and get their cars Midasized; their kids listen to Kiss and Andy Gibb, and their fathers work for H&R Block. And when they want to read a novel, no doubt they reach for a Stephen King...
...prime he tucked away six French Open championships, five consecutive Wimbledon titles and two Italian Opens, scampering across grass and clay with an iron reserve that unsettled opponents and turned everyone else into admirers. But two months ago Bjorn Borg announced that the thrill had gone, and last week in Monaco he played his final tournament. In the first round, facing José-Luis Clerc, 24, Borg bobbed along the baseline like the champion of yore, putting the Argentine away in 77 minutes, 6-1, 6-3. But the next day, against Frenchman Henri Leconte, 19, Borg went down...
...British Open that year at Turnberry, Scotland; the 1981 Masters; and last year at Pebble Beach-it has always been Jack who blinked. At Turnberry, their epic confrontation, Nicklaus finished 65-66 with a stouthearted 40-ft. putt spoiled by Watson's 65-65 and a stately seven-iron shot that settled lightly by the last hole. Squeezing Tom's arm-Watson is rather diminutive, 5 ft. 9 in., but the arms are parts off a larger man-Nicklaus told him as they strode away together, "I threw my best at you, and it wasn't good...