Word: metallism
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...mortars fly overhead to explode harmlessly in the ocean; none has landed nearby. As Williams shows a visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program...
...care of the local sheik. The military insisted on burying the two sons without an audience. A checkpoint was set up on the road to the cemetery, according to locals, to keep relatives and the citizens of Tikrit and Owja away while the two men's bodies, in metal boxes, were placed in the ground. The tribe was allowed to bury Mustafa...
...back of the vehicle. "Boots!" they reply. Again. "Dirty!" "Boots!" The infantrymen barrel out of the truck toward a two-story home perched on the edge of a sandy bluff overlooking the Tigris, some 10 miles north of the city of Tikrit. They reach the compound's metal gate, M-16s locked and loaded. A translator bangs on the door. When an old woman opens up, the troops sweep through the garden and into the house. An intelligence report had said Taha Yasin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's Vice President, might be in the area...
...known for his campaign against violence, was shot dead during a council meeting; in New York City. Davis' assailant was a political opponent, 31-year-old Othniel Askew, who apparently smuggled a gun in as he accompanied Davis through a security checkpoint (council members and their guests routinely bypass metal detectors). After he pumped several bullets into Davis, Askew was in turn shot dead by a police officer. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was only a few doors away, vowed to tighten City Hall security...
...again became an official war artist, initially attached to the Air Ministry. His sketches of wrecked German planes became the painting Totes Meer (Dead Sea, 1940-41). As in the earlier The Shore, the land is on the right, holding back "waves" made up of wings and fuselage. The metal sea, in his characteristic icy green, stretches to low, dark-red hills. In a verdant sky hangs the waning moon. The Battle of Germany (1944) is almost totally abstract. The coastline, as seen from a bomber, is evaporating in multicolored smoke. While bearing witness to events, he remained possessed...