Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What prompts these strange reactions from those who know me? Nothing more than my love for heavy metal music...
...triumph was posthumous, and maybe Pyrrhic: because of him, Andrew Dice Clay can make millions reciting dirty nursery rhymes in public. Clay and the other new raunch artists, most of them, are only incidentally subversive. They don't believe for a moment, most of them, what they're saying. Metal musicians are no serious Satanists; their concerts are just theater pieces -- Cats with a nasty yowl. Clay is not the pathetic strutting stud he seems onstage; that's just a character. (Was Jack Benny really stingy? Is Pee-wee Herman really a goony child?) Bruce said what he thought; Clay...
Lisette, 13, a seventh-grader in Mamaroneck, N.Y., loves heavy metal and doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. Read her the lyrics to One in a Million, and she shrugs, "It's just a song." She loves Motley Crue's You're All I Need, but "Sometimes it's hard to understand the words because of the beat. And that's what I like about heavy metal bands. Besides, they're gorgeous! A lot of adults don't like them because when they're married and settled down, they don't think about having action or talking...
...bicycle frames undergo incredible stress, especially where the hollow tubular pieces are joined. For decades, engineers struggled to strengthen frames while making them lighter. That task seemed impossible until manufacturers turned to materials used for jet fighters and missiles. Frames constructed of aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber and various metal combinations have proved to be stronger, stiffer, more shock absorbent and lighter than steel ones. The popular Kestrel frames from Cycle Composites, based in Watsonville, Calif., are made of molded carbon fiber. One-piece and aerodynamically designed, they are stronger and up to 1 kg lighter than premium steel frames...
WHEELS. Modern fibers are also making a difference in bicycle wheels, which traditionally feature dozens of thin metal spokes within a pliable rim. While multispoked wheels minimize wind resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with...