Word: metallic
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First there was a gold card and a gold record. Then platinum records and cards. But Platinum's now a deodorant, so it's time to find a new prestige metal. We asked some experts...
There's going to be a reaction against all this weight-reduction jazz, and ponderous will be the fashion. What better metal as an emblem for that new age than tungsten--the highest melting, the strongest, the ultimate heavy metal. --Roald Hoffmann, department of chemistry, Cornell...
...want to make a statement with a really, really expensive metal, you could go with osmium. My personal favorite is gadolinium. When you say it fast, it sings. On the more fanciful side, californium, for the laid-back customer, einsteinium, for the exceptionally wise money manager, neptunium, for stratospheric credit limits, and, for those just starting out, lead. --Tim Foecke, metallurgist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
...easily with the bohemian types streaming past him on a Greenwich Village sidewalk that it's easy to forget he is the auteur behind one of the landmark albums of the decade, 1994's The Downward Spiral, as well as an architect of the dark offshoot of heavy metal and punk called industrial rock. His themes of alienation and distress have influenced artists from Marilyn Manson to Oliver Stone. This week Reznor is making a return with a challenging new album, The Fragile (Nothing/Interscope), a work that rock fans are awaiting the same way storm chasers anticipate the next hurricane...
Gone are the metal hotel-style pans that held foods and the steam trays that sat under hot food. Instead, HUDS has electric hot plates and heat lights to keep food warmer and crisper, as well as ceramic bowls to hold food...