Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer and advance man for the future wanted to see for himself how arrivals from the Old World were ushered into the new one. He found the process strangely unceremonious. "On they go, from this pen to that," he wrote, "pen by pen, towards a desk at a little metal wicket -- the gate of America...
RATHER than just oppose Satan's message, Lubbock leaders are on the attack against His messengers--who now pose as members of heavy metal bands...
Exhibit A: You may recognize this as the peace symbol, but the Lubbock School Board calls it the "Cross of Neri." It is banned for the following reason: "This symbol represents [sic] peace in the early 60s, but now, among the Heavy Metal and Occult groups, signifies the "Cross of Neri." It shows an `upside down' cross with the cross member broken downward--`The Defeat of Christianity...
Specifically, they've determined that 33 music groups--curiously, exactly half of 66 groups--"carry negative messages within their music." Included are heavy metal bands like Slayer, Wasp, Black Sabbath and Megadeath as well as more mainstream performers such as "Led Zepplin" [sic], Guns-N-Roses, Styx, AC/DC and Van Halen. Students may no longer wear t-shirts from these bands, or write the band's name on their t-shirts or notebooks...
...Music sells a message!!" the flyer screams. "Heavy metal music promotes the following: drugs, irresponsible sex, violence, sadism, masochism, suicide and murder...