Word: metallism
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...heavy-metal concert had already ended at West Hollywood's House of Blues. But upstairs, in the nightclub's Foundation Room, the party rocked on. The VIP area, decked out in opium-den chic, is where show-biz types go to guzzle champagne in roped-off security. Unfortunately, by the time rock-music pioneer Phil Spector met B-movie actress Lana Clarkson there, the careers of both had seen better days: he was a legendary has-been; she had been a wannabe for way too long. The encounter would prove fatal...
...Ninja babe. When the marksmen fire their Uzis at her, she twirls skyward, the bullets harmlessly haloing her head. She disarms two of the men with flying darts, evaporates two more with grenades, does in the fifth Goliath with her slingshot and destroys an Israeli helicopter with a metal boomerang shaped like the state of Palestine. Ninja! Gotcha! Intifadeh...
...immigrants in the lobby of the JFK building removed their coats, handed over their bags and dropped the contents of their pockets into small plastic bowls before stepping through a blinking metal detectors, Saloom wondered aloud whether they will all be able to make it out again that morning...
...primary duty of a foosmaster is to organize house-wide tournaments. In the fall, the duties of a foosmaster extend to making sure that Quincy’s tables are in working order—a task that includes replacing broken figurines and lubricating the tables’ metal rods...
...quite possibly be the perfect building material: they are cheap, recyclable, capable of bearing large loads, can be quickly assembled and can be made waterproof and fire-resistant. Structurally speaking, the paper tubes and the plywood, both lightweight and relatively flexible, form the bulk of the structure while metal or wood reinforce joints and add strength...