Word: metallism
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Unfortunately, logistical problems of casting long names like "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" in metal make most rings resemble brass knuckles--only less elegant and sans the functionality. What these objets d'art lack in subtlety, they make up for in garish hideousness. For those who don't want to lug half their body weight on a single finger, FM's Style Police have rustled up these choice alternatives...
...Unfortunately, logistical problems of casting long names like "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" in metal make most rings resemble brass knuckles--only less elegant and sans the functionality. What these objets d'art lack in subtlety, they make up for in garish hideousness. For those who don't want to lug half their body weight on a single finger, FM's Style Police have rustled up these choice alternatives...
Instead, Magna is something called a systems supplier. With more than 40,000 employees scattered across Europe, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, China and Brazil, it is one of a growing number of companies making ever larger and more complex parts of cars--like the metal-body exterior of BMW Z3 roadsters manufactured in the U.S., the instrument panel on the Jaguar XK8 and the passenger cell for the cute little Smart Car that German consumer Cerstin Stadeler was eyeing disapprovingly in Bonn. "It looks like one of those kid's toys that come in chocolate eggs," she says. "You know...
True, Ms. Mutter was strapless, playing the violin in a gun-metal gray dress, and Mr. Ozawa was batonless, conducting as if summoning some ancient rain spirit. But these were the few rare unconventional elements of BSO's February 8th performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 and Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, pictures from pagan Russia...
...mere thought of not loving the movie. It seems that greedy little Mel wants it all, the dough and the doo-doo to boot. Whereas some actors employ pathos and ethos to panhandle Oscar gold, Gibson aims straight for the gut, which goes to show that even metal buckles at a de-entrailed man's blood-curdling cry for freedom...