Word: metallization
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...lick a frosted ax, to which of course the tongue sticks. The devil wonders idly, "What would become of an ax in space?" It would orbit there, "and the astronomers would calculate the rising and setting of the ax." Dostoyevsky's devil was prescient, speaking a century before bright metal began to fly up off the earth and circle round it. There is something spookily splendid about evil as an ax in space...
...maybe even go back to the record store. Until recently, traditional rock -- that gut- level stuff Bob Seger had in mind when he sang, "Today's music ain't got the same soul/ I like that old-time rock 'n' roll" -- has been under assault from rap, retooled metal and various highly sampled items from the dance floor. The upper reaches of the charts have been overwhelmed by performers like Paula Abdul, laying down bass-ballasted club tunes that keep your booty shaking while your brain shrivels to the size of a snow pea. The last rock record...
Next year, she will travel to California to help manage the heavy-metal band Testament...
Security was light: a scattering of police, no automatic rifles, no metal detectors in evidence, if present at all. Gandhi had been campaigning with little protection, a marked contrast to his previous style. His mother's assassination by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, the event that catapulted the former airline pilot into the prime ministership, had highlighted his vulnerability. For years he wore a bulletproof vest and surrounded himself with security so tight that opponents had begun ridiculing...
...diminutive eighth-grader advises Aki Shimizuishi. "Take your time, get the notes, know where they are, and then get the beat." Aki, 17, looks down at the short alto drums, which are cut from large oil containers. He strikes a few of the notes with thin, rubber-tipped metal mallets and winces when the tone doesn't sound quite right. "It is tough just getting the letters straight," he says as he tries to play the first bar of When the Saints Go Marchin' In. A number of his classmates and a few of his teachers at the Choate Rosemary...