Word: tinfoil
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Eliot's poem is a fairly short one, and all of "The Hollowmen" comes in at under 45 minutes. But in that time, artistic director Mark O'Maley does just about everything you can do with a stage draped in tinfoil, a strobe light and an actor in a metallic suit. Briefly, what happens is this: as the poem is heard on the sound track--mixed and looped, sped up and slowed down, intermingled with classical music, rock, and a pounding techno beat--Erik Amblad performs a highly elaborate pantomime, in which his only prop is a large red chair...
MIAMI: Saddo Ibrahim learned his lesson Friday in Miami after the Lebanese man brandished a tape recorder wrapped in tinfoil and threatened to blow up Iberia Airlines Flight 6621 if he was not taken to Miami. The DC-10 was flying from Madrid to Havana when Ibrahim stepped forward with a letter opener and his "bomb." Holding two wires connected to the tape recorder, he demanded that the pilot divert the flight and told the passengers and crew: "If I put these two wires together, this bomb will blow up." The plane landed in Miami at about...
...Ronald de Sousa once memorably described philosophical theology as `tennis without a net'...But we can lower it if you [i.e. the religious believer] really want to...Whatever you serve, suppose I return service rudely as follows: `What you say implies that God is a ham sandwich wrapped in tinfoil. That's not much of a God to worship!" If you then...[demand] to know how I can Iogically justify my claim...I will reply; `Oh, do you want the net up for my returns...
...Protruding wires or tinfoil...
...other rhino was draped in white sheets and paper towels, resembling a mummy. Both rhinos glared into the courtyard with red tinfoil eyes...