Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a recurring image in popular culture--perhaps from cartoons, or maybe sitcoms--of a mother dragging her son to an opera to introduce him to "culture." Invariably, the small boy (or sometimes brutish Neanderthal husband) fidgets in an oversized seat of plush velvet as metal-horned, breast-plated Wagnerian heroines screech unbearably in German. For the boy, the opera is long, boring and utterly meaningless...
...heard the baby crying, I turned it off," says McArthur Williams, a porter at the housing project. "If it hadn't cried, the baby would have been gone for sure." Patrol sergeant | Philip Insardi, who was summoned to the scene, said he crawled through the compactor's small metal doors and shined a flashlight onto the mount of garbage that was about to be squeezed between the machine's walls. "His feet were sticking out from under some newspapers," he said. "He wasn't making a peep when I got there." Insardi whipped off his shirt, swaddled the baby...
...tractor factory on the outskirts of Tirana, 4,200 workers toil on machines that have been in use since the 1940s, converting scrap metal into tractor parts. Now mass layoffs loom. Production and wages have been slashed for lack of raw materials. "We're terrified that we'll be left with no money," says Gezime Sula. Nevertheless, she supports the Democrats, even though an unbridled marketplace would almost certainly close the factory gates...
...told him not to walk under that exhaust fan," Martin told me, pointing toward an unsightly blob of metal protruding from the building next door. "I told him he might get grease on his clothes...
...HAMPSHIRE. In the town of Derry, Pamela Smart, a 23-year-old high school instructor with big brown eyes, Gainsborough ringlets and a taste for heavy- metal music, deflowered William Flynn, a 15-year-old student, after they watched the steamy movie 9 1/2 Weeks on the VCR. She then persuaded Flynn and two friends to do away with her husband Greg, who was found shot in the back of the head last...