Word: metallers
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...film concentrates on two of the men - Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Officer Will Jimeno (Michael Pe?a) - who were pinned down in the metal carnage on the buildings' Concourse level, and on the attempt of a few men above to rescue them. It intercuts the action in Lower Manhattan with the hopes and forebodings of McLoughlin's and Jimeno's wives as they anxiously await news of their husbands' fate...
...terms, most of this works. Cage is especially fine. He tamps down his familiar eccentricities, and lends McLoughlin a laser stare of dread as he lies in his metal cage he thinks has become his coffin. After he's rescued and brought out on a stretcher, McLoughlin's gesture of touching the hand of each helper and saying "Thank you" has a heart-touching simplicity and nobility...
...people who book commercials on cable channels don't pay a lot of attention. Those two universal truths meant that, as of Thursday, stations were still running the Sierra Mist ad in which Kathy Griffin and Jim Gaffigan play airport security agents who pretend that their handheld metal detectors are being set off by Michael Ian Black's soda bottle - so they can confiscate it and drink it themselves. "You're just going 'wah, wah' when you put the thing over the soda!" Black protests, as the guard played by Gaffigan adjusts his rubber gloves and threatens, "Just give...
...particularly devious innovation of the London plotters was their alleged use of liquid explosives or explosive components, which are easily concealed in many of the items found in most travelers' hand luggage - perfume, hair gel, deodorant, medicines, drinks, toothpaste, lotions, and so on - and are extremely difficult to detect. Metal detectors will obviously miss them. While there have been some "puffer" explosive-detection machines placed in some U.S. airports, they are few and far between - and aren't made to detect liquid explosives in sealed containers...
...chair by JM Ferrero for Estudi Hac Intended for the garden, Ferrero's JPN chair, which debuted at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair, shouldn't languish in the shed during winter months. With an elegant metal form and geometric flower pattern created by the Valencia-based designer for his own brand, it deserves to be round the kitchen table. estudihac.com...