Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Sunday, we paid another visit to directress/raconteur Erica Werner in her faux-Titian dorm room. Outside it was cold and dreary, but inside we found Ms. Werner in fine fettle, cooing merrily at her Bonsai tree. Clad in a chain-metal sheath and matching elbow-length gloves, both by Gaultier, with hair by Vidal Sassoon, Ms. Werner discoursed savvily on topic ranging from the Knights Templar to the common cold. As always, we were impressed by her smarts. But we were not where we were--that is, in the presence of genius disguised as high fashion--to engage...
...Circus Lupus) are indebted to Honor Role in some way; aMINIATURE, who are one of the best, are also more indebted than most. The guitar sound on Depth Five Rate Six is thicker--"grungier," if you will--than Dinty Moore's Beef Stew, thicker than you get on most metal records, and a total contrast to the painfully thin sound Honor Role cultivate. The bass and drums, though, come straight from the Honor Role fakebook--together, the parts of the rhythm section generally seem to be lurching sideways, trying to steady themselves, and at the same time rolling inexorably...
...children dropped to the ground and then, when more explosions followed, ran for the beckoning safety of their building. Inside, fearful families rushed to the windows. As they watched, a shell exploded just behind the running children. The fresh snow instantly turned red: the blast and its shower of metal fragments killed five youngsters outright. A sixth died after arriving at a hospital. Two others were badly wounded. In this war there are no safe zones, even for children...
...charged the pit, wanting to touch this awesome piece of metal And thousands followed behind. we gathered around the driver, holding hands and singing...
...final detector was to be a cylinder aboutfive stories long and eight meters in diameterwith "as much metal as a battleship," says John E.Huth, professor of physics...