Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skin, as he submits to the latest trend catching on among tattoo and piercing devotees: branding. Body artist Todd Murray torches a small square of stainless steel using a propane flame, then lines up his shot like a pool shark with a cue, swiftly applying the red-hot metal in what's called a "kiss of fire," one of 10 strikes necessary to finish the job. "This is amazing," gasps Gardner, balling his fists while the scorching marks are applied. "If I could bottle this feeling up, I would give it away...
Vince McMahon, chairman of the World Wrestling Federation: I would start with a nice pyrotechnic display, add some voluptuous women to wipe the contestants' brows. I guess I would also add hard rock music in there somewhere and some physicality. Whoever loses would be hit with a folding metal chair...
...reverse that for a moment. The entrepreneur is Howard Head, who created a metal ski and later an oversize tennis racquet, revolutionizing both sports. He sold his namesake company in 1971 to AMF, a conglomerate that was busted up in the mid-1980s. Head was sold to a leveraged buyout firm, Freeman Spogli, in 1989, which unloaded the struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They threw money...
Quincy House will soon become the latest undergraduate house to abandon metal keys for plastic card keys. And residents have mixed feelings about the new technology...
...product that is both artful and appealing to consumers," Gibney says. "Designers are discovering with cars that if you look back at great models of the past, you'll find some inspiration for what will work in the future, and technological advances have made it possible to stretch the metal, glass and four-wheels idea beyond what anybody thought possible...