Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unexpected uses. Invented by an electronics worker who needed a better tool to pick up tiny components, the Deluxe Tweezerman is every woman's answer to precision cosmetics. Unlike most standard tweezers, which are machine filed and chrome plated and therefore cannot grip very well, this hand-filed, stainless-steel instrument works extraordinarily well for the most delicate maneuvers. Its perfectly fitting edges enable users to remove that one offending hair without pinching the skin or missing the target...
...Christopher J. Scarver -- a 25-year-old killer who once claimed to be the son of God -- was cleaning a prison locker room with Dahmer and another notorious Wisconsin killer, Jesse Anderson, on Nov. 28 when he clubbed both on the head with a 20-inch steel bar he'd stolen from the jail's weight room, authorities said. When a guard asked him why he was back from work detail early, court papers say, Scarver replied: "God told me to do it. You will hear about it on the 6 o'clock news. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer...
...past 150 years or so, as steel-stringed fiddles and machine-tooled valve horns replaced their forebears, the orchestra has achieved a golden sheen but at the expense of clarity. Instruments that are perfect for late- 19th century music do not necessarily suit 18th century compositions, not even those of Beethoven, who straddles the two eras. "Later instruments have a way of blurring the edges of the music," explains Gardiner. With original instruments, he says, "what you lose in opulence, you gain in extra transparency...
...considering the misfortunes that befell his typical middle-class suburban upbringing. He was born in Denver, one of six children (five boys and a girl) of Gerald and Martha Dick. His last name was the occasion for a thousand playground taunts, which taught him early on how to steel himself with humor. At age 11, however, Allen faced a far more serious trauma: on the way home from a college football game, his father was killed in a car accident. "My world changed overnight," Allen recalls in his book...
Shepard, of course, has lately turned most of his attention to Hollywood, acting in movies (The Pelican Brief, Steel Magnolias), directing a couple (Far North) and being the husband of a Hollywood star, Jessica Lange. His new work, which opened last week off-Broadway under Shepard's own direction, seems an exercise in nostalgia for his old, avant-garde self. The plot is purposely spare, and the dialogue maddeningly elliptical, rising only to an occasional pretentious epigram: "People drifting apart -- it's worse than death...