Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power ballad of the late '80s was a creation of arena rock. In large, suburban arenas, so-called "hair metal" bands would take the stage amid lights and mist and hordes of adoring fans waving lighters. But though it may have been linked with the arena, the power ballad came through just fine on the car radio or on the boom box at the beach. The power ballad relied on strong, clear vocals, on lyrics that were simple and trite but always direct and plainly emotional, on the electric guitar and, most of all, on sheer volume. This wasn...
...narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred from returning home because geologists fear that an even larger slide may follow. Says LaCombe, who was forced to leave his job with a metal wholesale company in order to cope with the crisis: "I have lost absolutely everything in my life--except my wife...
...people understand the Faustian bargain they have made. This shop is dedicated to those who have rejected the bargain. It is open to those who might reconsider." "Anarchy"? "Faustian bargain"? That's pure bohemia. Packed 12-foot bookshelves tower above Beringer and Johnnie Walker boxes overflowing with books. Rolling metal ladders facilitate browsing. Old black-and white postcards of Dorothy Parker and Charles Baudelaire cover the ends of the shelves. A dark gray cat named Blue stalks the aisles, and its owner (also owner of the store), Vincent McCaffrey, is available for a chat about London...
Across Concord Street from the church is the Boston Fire Department's Engine Number 22. The metal garage door rolls up to reveal a vast space, empty except for a single bright red fire engine and an ambulance parked nearby. Inside the Fire Department office, a group of firemen's voices are drowned out by the loud whirring noise of a saw working somewhere in the back of the building. Apparently it's been a slow day--there've been no calls...
...restroom, an amalgam of Woodstock and West Side Story, has graffiti exceeding even the Lamont third floor women's room in its abundance and occasional creativity. If the industrial metal stall doors are supposed to scream Def Leppard to the child of the '80s, then the walls of psychedelic patterns straight out of Fantasia will comfort an older generation...