Word: tinfoiled
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...wreckage was strewn over a 200-yd. swath and consisted largely of rubber strips, tinfoil, wood sticks, Scotch tape, other tape with a floral design and what rancher W.W. ("Mac") Brazel described as a rather tough paper. On the day Brazel chanced upon the strange debris, June 14, 1947, he was making his rounds at the J.B. Foster sheep ranch, 85 miles northwest of Roswell. As he later recalled, he was in a hurry and didn't pay much attention to the scattered assortment...
...they stowed it in the trunk of Marcel's Buick. On his way back to Roswell, Marcel stopped at his home to show off the booty. Marcel's son Jesse Jr., now 60 and a doctor in Helena, Mont., remembers being awakened by his father and shown tinfoil, plastic, "beams or struts" that seemed metallic, and some strange markings that he thought resembled "hieroglyphics." The younger Marcel was only 10 at the time, but, he told TIME last week, he recalls that his father "was pretty excited, and I kind of think he said 'flying saucers...
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...