Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serves up deadly, sweeping categorizations. According to Sedaris, the people who most want to be in acting are always "Jews, homosexuals, and portly girls, whose faces were caked with acne medication." Of people who live in trailers, he remarks that, in general, they "peed in the sink and used metal buckets to barbeque tough purple steaks marked 'reduced for final sale.'" His sense of humor is alert and p.c.-heedless...
...course, no name change is really forthcoming. The Dow keepers--editors at the Wall Street Journal--have been softening the average's smokestack image for years, and no one seems terribly confused. Still, it's notable that today only half the Dow companies are true metal benders, a testament to sweeping changes in the economy during the past few decades...
...intelligent ideas into high-powered rap, regardless of marketing data that say gangsta rap sells best. Who's pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown of Music Most Likely to Infuriate My Parents. The suburban rebellion--its record-buying tastes, its voyeurism of what too often it views as "authentic black culture"--has contributed to the primacy of the gangsta-rap genre...
...loves making love to men with scars; to her, each wound is an orifice, and auto eroticism is an aphrodisiac. It is more--a sacrament--to Vaughan (Elias Koteas), whose obsession with celebrity crashes has made him a priest of the car cult. He seeks immortality in heavy-metal scrapes with death...
...Park, abortion clinic and Otherside lounge bombings involved devices with similarities that could add up to a common signature. The clock timers from each bombing are similar, sources say, as are the types of copper wire used in the fusing mechanisms. Forensic tests reportedly indicate the presence of unusual metal in some components, but further tests must be done to determine whether chemically identical substances are present in all the bombs. Jurisdictional splits are causing bureaucratic competition. The Olympic Park bomb is being tested at the FBI lab in Washington while the clinic and nightclub devices are being examined...