Word: metalic
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...center. A middle-aged Japanese man dressed in white, wearing a mask, is meditating in its shadow. Behind him two Tibetan monks are counting off their prayer beads and whispering. But as you walk to the back of the temple, you see another tree, even larger, with green metal beams holding up its branches. There is a stone fence around it; a sign says, PRINCE SIDDHARTHA ATTAINED BUDDHAHOOD [FULL ENLIGHTENMENT] ... SITTING UNDER THIS PEEPUL [BODHI] TREE...
Every off-season, members of the Harvard baseball team trade in the familiarity of collegiate metal for the wooden bats of summer...
...prefer it when she's a classy starlet. I don't really like her hard metal stuff, or when she doesn't brush her hair." FRANCES COBAIN, 13-year-old daughter of singer Courtney Love, on her mother's fashion sense
FEMA workers, who had volunteered for little pay to take on a job that would ultimately include body collection, waited on metal folding chairs outside the hospital’s entrance. They smoked long menthol cigarettes and squinted their eyes at the track field, where once in a while a Blackhawk helicopter would land...
...prolific Boyle (author of 10 novels and six previous short-story collections) returns to mercilessly test his characters' physical and emotional endurance. Lester, a young bartender, experiences "wrecks both literal and figurative, replete with flames, blood, crushed metal and broken hearts." He isn't alone. In other stories, a radio DJ must survive 12 days without sleep for a p.r. promotion and a couple is trapped in a crotch-high snowdrift on a back mountain road. The gratification comes as each, captured in Boyle's calculating and caustic prose, fights his or her way out of the wreckage. --By Rebecca...