Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hispanic immigrant-support groups in California are indignant about the latest U.S. attempt to seal the border with Mexico. In mid-June military reservists began placing thick steel sheets along a 14-mile stretch between Tijuana and San Diego County. The metal is surplus landing-strip material from the gulf war. Some residents on both sides find the wall offensive, but the U.S. stands firm. "The Immigration and Naturalization Service is simply trying to do what it can with a limited budget," says a U.S. embassy official...
Other scams are just as difficult to uncover. In 1988 Customs officers found 2,270 kg of cocaine encased in 1,200 blocks of chocolate shipped from Ecuador. The cocaine bricks had been wrapped in lead to thwart X-rays, but the lead set off metal detectors. The next time, Customs found, the smugglers had switched to heavy plastic wrapping...
...wonder we enjoy seeing the human body being shredded, quartered, flayed, filleted and dissolved in vats of acid. It let us down. No wonder we love heroes and mega-villians like RoboCop and the Terminator, in whom all soft, unreliable tissue has been replaced by metal alloys. Or that we like reading (even in articles deeply critical of the violence they manage to summarize) about diabolical new uses for human flesh. It's been, let's face it, a big disappointment. May as well feed it to the rats or to any cannibalistically inclined killer still reckless enough to indulge...
They erupt like indignant metal jungle birds, and they whoop all night. They make American cities sound like lunatic rain forests, all the wildlife affrighted, violated, outraged, shrieking...
...worlds of high risk and heavy metal are coming together. Peter Morton, trend-sensitive co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, plans to open a Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas by late 1992. The 326-room property would be the resort's first casino to target patrons more versed in Ben E. King than Benny Goodman. Morton's chain of 11 Hard Rock restaurants, which serve down- home food and vintage rock, has grown to annual revenues of nearly $100 million. Morton's latest smash hit: a Hard Rock restaurant in Las Vegas, an instant landmark thanks...