Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illustrate, prisoners usually start with July 22, 1991. At 12:10 a.m. on that date, Whitley presided over Louisiana's final execution by electric chair. Later the same day, orders reached the prison metal shop to construct the gurney that would henceforth be used for lethal injections. Two inmate welders balked; then 375 convicts joined their "work buck." Confronted by every warden's worst nightmare -- a prisoner rebellion -- Whitley did the unthinkable: he backed down. He publicly called the idea a bad one and said a private contractor would build the table instead. "He admitted he was wrong," says lifer...
Once inside, customers can buy a genuine Empire Strikes Back lunchbox, or a cast-metal Millenium Falcon. If shoppers finds the some of the merchandise a bit expensive, they have a wide selection of cheaper goods to choose from, including a Darth Vader mask, Star Trek squeeze bottles and Japanese animation posters...
...works are composed of a variety of media, ranging from feathers and tinted plaster to metal...
...didn't campaign on the promise that you would send Chelsea to public school, so you shouldn't, unless she likes walking through metal detectors to go to basketball games. In fact, you campaigned on the premise that the schools needed fixing. The press will go into high dudgeon, but parents will admire you for putting your child before politics...
...short, that cannot be easily found in a prominent place in any shopping-mall music store in America. This middle-of- the-road eclecticism is typical of Clinton's generation, lost in the rock- is-dead wilderness, casting about for a musical resting place between rap and heavy metal. If the President-elect has an unorthodox musical passion, it lies in his deep appreciation for black gospel and rhythm and blues. Unlike almost all white politicians of any generation, Clinton gets the beat consistently right...