Word: metallism
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...exaggerated tales of salaciousness and violence, portraying themselves as potent, swashbuckling urban heroes. Since a macho image is a proven formula for success, rap producers were reluctant to sign female rappers. The music moguls were also fearful of challenging the form's rigid orthodoxies: in rap, as in heavy metal, feminine voices do not always supply the requisite loudness and abrasiveness...
...have never heard of ghost witnesses," said attorney Najeeb Al-Wuqayan, who was educated at the University of San Diego. "You say you have witnesses, then let's call them and let's examine them." Three civilian and two military judges presided. The defendants were kept in a metal cage on one side of the courtroom...
Marjorie Cohn, acting director of the adjoining Fogg Art Museum, says that while Werner Otto Hall, whose surface is made of limestone and metal panels, has a distinct character from the neighboring Fogg Museum and Carpenter Center, its presence is not too strong...
There is a recurring image in popular culture--perhaps from cartoons, or maybe sitcoms--of a mother dragging her son to an opera to introduce him to "culture." Invariably, the small boy (or sometimes brutish Neanderthal husband) fidgets in an oversized seat of plush velvet as metal-horned, breast-plated Wagnerian heroines screech unbearably in German. For the boy, the opera is long, boring and utterly meaningless...
Vellucci says that the Ibis was stolen from the castle and left on his lawn wrapped in a sheet. The Lampoon formed a "find the bird committee" and asked Vallucci, who was on the city council at the time, if he would help them find the metal bird...