Word: metalic
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...chose his words so carefully because they could move markets, Robert Rubin is talking a blue streak. "When I got to the airport to leave Washington, I went through the metal detector. I never had to do that when I was Treasury Secretary. And I felt good about it. Then I went to make a phone call. I put my quarter and my dime in the pay-phone slot. There was nobody around. I was delighted to be on my own again. I felt liberated...
...Rubin's public-sector resume may not be complete. He's already a leading candidate to replace his friend Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve when Greenspan's term expires next June. Who knows? Before long, the metal detector could again become a thing of the past...
South High was scheduled to reopen Monday, with students to be greeted by police wielding metal detectors. But that's not the worst of the fallout for students like Melissa Oliver. She had her hair done in ringlets and bought a glittery blue dress to wear to the homecoming dance--and that hasn't been rescheduled...
...photographer, the one in Vanity Fair and Details, the new Annie Leibovitz with the pedal to the metal. Look at his portrait of Madonna or Marilyn Manson, right, and it's settled: for extremity, hilarity and high pitch, LaChapelle is the one. So when any given picture is two tons of fun, does it matter that he lacks any gravity? Maybe. Taken in bulk, with the wagging tongues and the thrust butts coming at you on every page, you have to admit to fun fatigue. There are times when you can go over the top and still not get anywhere...
...episode of Dynasty or The Fall Guy to see how horrendous the outfits and hairdos were. And it was a painful time for music, too--sure, there were one or two good groups, and I like 80s classics like "Too Shy" and "867-5309", but genres like hair metal (Stryper, Dokken, etc.) were a travesty, and those fake drum sounds that everyone used in the mid and late 80s were god-awful. Bear in mind though that I'm biased in judging decades by the fact that my fashion and music tastes froze in about 1982. However, to my credit...