Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hoods' Thanksgiving dinner is particularly telling: the awkwardness of trying to fit into a traditional familial mold is immediately apparent, but the source of that awkwardness is much harder to locate. In a dining room designed in functional '70s style--sleek metal chairs scrape against a stone floor, and large windows display the gloomy weather outside--Ben Hood asks his 14-year-old daughter Wendy (Christina Ricci) to say grace. Wendy can't take him seriously, so instead she delivers a monologue thanking God for the food they are about to gorge themselves upon, and then begins rambling about...
Some more bizarre risk-taking that ends up paying off is Hatfield's employment of ultra hardcore bass grooves strongly reminiscent of the scary-intense work of shock-metal band Tool. On "Give Me Some Of That," Hatfield breaks out some heavy fuzz bass that will blow away anyone expecting sugary pop--or any pop at all. The newly-30 Hatfield makes it frighteningly easy to identify with her rage at the loss of youth: "If I had/half of what you had/I would be so/so fucking glad...
...other hand, most of Gomez's images, while slightly off-beat, are true to life. The razor that Gary's barber pulls out to shave his head is like the one "seen in the opening scenes of Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket." Later on, Mark's new girlfriend Corinne "starts feeling less like a date and more like a cruise director on 'The Love Boat,'" as Mark keeps depending on her to arrange his social life. Ultimately, through the cluster-bombed pop culture allusions, Gomez is able to describe a host of different events accurately while connecting to his target...
...chair for his late sister at the University of Tennessee. But he needed $500,000 to establish an endowment. Knight, who ran congressional offices for Gore, knew where to find it. In March, 1994, two days before the Energy Department granted $9 million in research funds to Molten Metal Technology, its chairman donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger Chair of Excellence in Global Environmental Studies. Knight, then actively lobbying the department for what was a nine-fold increase in the grants, thanked Molten chairman Bill Haney in a March 14 letter, calling the chair a "very personal priority...
...Energy Department grants to Molten Metal eventually reached $33 million, money parceled out over three years over the objection of some government scientists. But the favorable treatment bestowed on the firm did not end there. Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm...