Word: metallization
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...leader accepted the honor of detonating the explosives ringing Saddam's statue. With a thunderous blast Najaf's most visible symbol of Saddam's regime toppled in a heap of twisted metal. People ran from the side streets cheering and climbing over the wreckage, enjoying the giddiness of the moment. One Iraqi approached Brigadier General Benjamin Freakley, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne. "Kill Saddam," he said, and spat on the ground. Then he added, "Now we can have satellite...
...mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. The classic parody of perpetually witless hard rockers finds its complement in both music and volume with Wind, which focuses not on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, but a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that he has previously captured, settling...
...grating speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over set lists. Rounding out the collection are the New Main Street Singers, whose leaders practice some sort of color-based religion that is far too ludicrous to be amusing...
...programmed in three dimensions. According to Farkas, it helps “when you’re trying to measure the speed of light to 18 decimal places.” Farkas is making a small assembly for a rotating laser mount out of Invar, a metal that resists the expansion and contraction associated with laser research. He invites FM to take the digital mill for a spin. “Just lower the bit five thousandths of an inch and press the button,” he instructs. The hot lubricant launches nano-specks of Invar on smoking parabolic...
...numeraries, these men and women dedicate their lives to Opus Dei, make a promise of chastity and are encouraged to take on a regimen of physical mortification that includes wearing a “cilis,” a spiked metal chain, around their thighs and placing boards over their mattresses...