Word: metallism
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...their indulgences, their cash turned into blighting noise. This market has released too much money into the atmosphere in the form of private planes and onto the lakes and rivers as roostering speedboats and their juvenile-delinquent offspring, Jet Skis, which have the charm of chain saws. Loud, alien metal has colonized...
...Sony machine is swell in virtually every other respect. Its 7-in. LCD screen and 4-hr. battery time were clearly superior to the Aiwa's 5.8-in. screen and 2-hr. battery time. Also, it was better engineered for usability. It is solidly built (it has a metal case) and surprisingly trim, while the Aiwa is mostly plastic and clunkier; its battery pack clips on, adding weight and bulkiness. Sony's rechargeable battery, by contrast, is built...
...world's most famous architect, was once just the world's most famous strange architect. That was in the 1980s, when to some people his angular rethinking looked all elbows. That was also when his mixture of high concept with cheap materials--chain link fencing, corrugated metal, pressed plywood--was getting his work labeled "populist," which generally means brainy but cheap. In 1981, when he was named Architect of the Year by his peers in California, he figured he should use the opportunity to accept his prize with a talk titled "I'm Not Weird...
...organize weekly bouts featuring costumed characters, intricate plot lines and the inevitable black eyes and scratches. In the EWF, as in the big leagues, fighters are assigned roles: low-down "jobbers" routinely get beaten up; superstars vie for championship titles. The boys know who will get slammed with a metal chair or smashed on a table. During the interview portions, characters accuse one another of cheating. The ref is jeered and mauled...
Picking up where it left off five years ago, Bon Jovi delivers a piece of vintage '90s pop-metal, as straightforward as a stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike. The band's trove of clever hooks and jolly bombast once made it a cool alternative for kids suffering from heavy-metal fatigue. But pop taste, like a teen's attention span, never lasts. Crush tries to update itself with Older, a tune about honoring your roots, but what it really, really wants is to re-live the days when jeans were tight and hair was big. Fine, but haven...