Word: ironization
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...heads toward the dealers on Second and Avenue D. Although he never carries a gun on his shopping expeditions, the Captain has a tough demeanor that commands respect-gritty gray eyes, a diamond glittering in his right ear, and a clean-shaven head looming over a stocky, pig-iron body. He prefers to "score" drugs on Sunday in order to avoid the novice buyers, known in the trade as johns and marks, who are preyed on by "beat artists," pushers who sell low-quality merchandise at premium prices. "The white high school kids from New Jersey and Long Island...
...Gehrig, known also as "The Iron Horse" and "Columbia...
...responsibility system has spread to nearly every sector of society, including industry, culture and the arts, public health and the military. Peking's Capital Iron and Steel Complex now gives bonuses to its 70,000 workers when they meet specific requirements. By 1985, according to the government, 72,000 hotels, restaurants, bathhouses and barbershops will switch to the new system. The businesses will pay taxes to the government. Anything earned above the taxes will be shared among employees or reinvested...
...practices. Clearly, the changes will make life more difficult for some people. The government has cut the Peking opera troupe's $400,000 annual subsidy, for example, forcing it to make up the difference with bigger box-office receipts or by reducing expenses. As Peking progressively abandons the "iron rice bowl" system (everyone is entitled to basic staples like rice), the Chinese have had to deal with the hardship of unemployment...
...work shoes, and Frida in elaborate peasant skirts and blouses, her hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid terrible wounds. In 1925 a bus carrying Kahlo was struck by a trolley car. Rescuers found the 18-year-old girl impaled on an iron rod, her pelvis smashed, a foot mangled and her spine bent to nearly a right angle. Frida endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. None of them stopped the degeneration of her bones. At times she lived in braces, surgical corsets and wheelchairs, paraphernalia she transformed on canvas with...