Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deafening boom of a truck horn, which seemed to be located somewhere in our back seat. The fact that we could see nothing but an immense grille in our rear window persuaded my grandmother that speeding was synonymous with surviving, and she put the pedal to the metal...
...movie, Stallone has created a visual and aural experience design to bombast and overwhelm the viewer's senses. All the blows have been amplified and run through some electronic thingamajig to produce a sound much akin to a pack of wolves attacking a square mile of sheet metal. Clips from the earlier three movies fly past with the incredible rapidity of a flurry of Marvin Hagler haymakers to the pounding strains of "Burning Heart" by Survivor. The audience has to weather flashing lights, smoke, flags, flying drops of sweat, blood stains, chanting crowds and the ever-present metallic thuds...
...issue of music censorship received national attention following a series of circus-like Senate hearings that pitted the likes of Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.) and Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) against Zappa and Dee Snyder of the heavy metal faves Twisted Sister...
Officials of the residence later disclosed that outside panels of the 2,800-sq.-ft. auditorium's corrugated-metal roof had been removed as part of a repair program and that rain had weakened the ceiling underneath. A plan to demolish the old structure had been postponed because of a shortage of funds. Two engineers supervising the repair work were suspended. The President of Bangladesh, Lieut. General H.M. Ershad, appointed a commission to investigate...
Those competing values are increasingly set against each other as Americans face more and more screening designed to combat drugs, drunk driving, terrorism, on-the-job thievery and, most recently, AIDS. Major league baseball players last month temporarily deflected a push for voluntary drug testing. The metal detectors familiar at airports are now found at many government buildings. In the first six months after the Dade County courthouse in Miami installed a detector last year, an amazing 3,000 weapons were discovered. Peter Bensinger, former administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, estimates that about one-quarter of FORTUNE...