Word: silver
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...floor below, off an ornate corridor adorned with 19th century frescoes, two Senators who rarely vote the same way on anything were doing things the old-fashioned way: putting their silver heads--and their combined 72 years of Senate experience--together in an effort to pull their less seasoned colleagues back from the brink. Virginia Republican John Warner and West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd had each brought a copy of the Constitution and were poring over Alexander Hamilton's "Federalist No. 66" to see if they could discern precisely what the Founding Fathers meant when they gave the Senate...
...officer was sent to investigate the theft of a laptop computer at Peabody Terrace. The stolen silver Dell computer was worth...
...train station, where she works as a cleaner, to find her co-workers slack-jawed with incredulity. They were staring at a fresh crop of campaign posters plastered on the station's walls. They portrayed her husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu). "Did you see the poster...
Ditch the black shirts and gray pants. Bright colors and high-tech garments that chase the sweat away are scoring this year. Cutter & Buck's shore blue (for men) and solar yellow (for women) ThermaTec shirts, out in June, have tiny silver fibers that keep duffers cool...
...another effort in the vandalism of the cinematic cemetery, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This crime-laced comedy, narrated by Robert Downey, Jr., as a two-bit hood turned movie actor, is meant to be a parody of Hollywood action films, especially the ones produced by Joel Silver, who produced here. Running on the fumes of countless bad movies, Black concocts what might work at five mins. as a slam-tribute at a Joel Silver roast...