Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave the go order last week, the commandos did not attack immediately. They spoke to their colleagues inside, telling them they had 10 minutes to pass the word to the other hostages to get down and take cover. And they had a special request: try to open a heavy, metal-reinforced door leading to the balcony outside the master bedroom. The Peruvians whispered their warnings to the others, including Bolivian Ambassador Jorge Gumucio Granier. The news startled Gumucio, who instantly remembered that the guerrillas had practiced more than 20 times how they would react to a raid--by tossing grenades...
MADRID: There was no coffin or graveside eulogy, just a simple Pegasus rocket traveling at 6,200 mph and 22 lipstick-sized metal vials containing the ashes of Timothy Leary and "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, among others, for the first commercial burial in space. The containers will orbit the earth for up to10 years before reentering the atmosphere with a fiery explosion ? "blazing like a shooting star in final tribute," according to the Web site for Celestis Inc., the Houston-based company that organized the world's first space funeral. At $4800 per vial, the space shot costs about...
Gallant said that the key-card system is more "flexible" than traditional metal locks and keys...
...blinds six horses with a metal spike. Shocking? Yes. Disgusting? No doubt. Lock the boy up and throw away the key? Well...maybe...
Demonstrating his extremely inventive use of video, Tony Oursler's sculptures simultaneously fascinate and disturb. For the Biennial, he presents his most restrained and sophisticated work yet, three-dimensional glass ovals resting on metal poles or the floor, on to which he projects video images of talking heads. They stare at the viewer and blankly recite children's variations of songs commonly heard in school yards: "Joy to the world, the teacher's dead; we barbecued her head." Yet monotone delivery and eerie visual presentation transform these rhymes into disturbing alien utterances. We watch both mesmerized and repulsed, while...