Word: metallism
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Secreted away behind an auto repair shop on a dirt lot, it's a windowless jungle of concrete, metal, wood, masonite and discarded furniture. The only ventilation comes from a garage-sized opening that forms the entrance...
...been a constant throughout my life. I saw him on the hustings for what was probably the last time ever a few days after the Democratic National Convention last month. A lot has changed since I first met him. Then, the Yell County Fair-grounds did not have metal detectors at its entrances, and no agents stood on nearby rooftops with surface-to-air missiles. Eighteen years ago, Mike Cornwell, the County Democratic Chairman, and a few anonymous aides were Clinton's only companions; he now has a phalanx of Secret Service agents. His only interaction with my parents...
...urban setup like we have here [in Cambridge], it puts people in a metal and glass tank, making them virtually unapproachable," Riley says...
...slowly replacing all the old single-pane windows. The hilly neighborhood has a virtually all-white population of about 7,000, with an average household income of $52,537. Lori's is a street of $79,000 starter homes that people stay in for 30 years, brick bungalows with metal awnings and a ribbon of lawn that skips from house to house. For years the mainline Forest Park patriarchs of St. Louis looked down on the German immigrants who settled this south side because they were forever washing those neat cement porches and tight little windows. They called them...
...Cirque still works, magnificently. From its first moments under the yellow-and-blue big top on the Santa Monica Pier, Quidam (which means "anybody" in Latin) pulls the audience out of domesticity into the ethereum of its wizardly wit. A man and a woman sit in metal chairs, he reading a paper, she knitting. A child sits before them. Then through a door comes a large figure out of a Magritte painting: long overcoat, umbrella, bowler hat, no head. The child takes the creature's magic hat, puts it on--and dreams the three-hour show. The chairs, the door...