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...concrete. Not the cheap, gray, easily cracked, soulless stuff that gave urbanization a bad name when it was slathered over Western cities in the 1960s, but newfangled, bright - and still relatively expensive - concrete that has come onto the market this decade. High-performance or ultra-high-performance concrete, as it's known in the industry, is up to 10 times stronger than regular concrete. Although, pound-by-pound, it costs several times as much as regular concrete, industry officials say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have different properties that make them more comparable to materials such...
Deadwood: The Complete Series Over three seasons, David Milch's poetically profane western explored the evolution of a South Dakota gold-rush town populated by dreamers, grifters and whores. The series was cut short by a year; with this infinitely rewatchable collection, the end need never come...
...done all right for a fellow who began as a Universal contract player in 1955, doing bit roles in movies starring giant spiders (Tarantula) and talking mules (Francis in the Navy). He settled into the saddle as ramrod Rowdy Yates, second lead in the cattle-drive TV western Rawhide, a job that guaranteed a paycheck but deferred movie fame. Sergio Leone changed all that when he paid Eastwood $15,000 to play a misanthrope with a gun, wiping out two teams of bad guys, in Fistful of Dollars. By the time he'd done two more Leone westerns...
That persona basically took John Wayne, the solitary western hero, and made him nastier, edgier, way easier to anger. Where the Duke drawled and lumbered--he wasn't so much a cattleman as a cattle man--Clint scowled and pounced, a scorpion with stubble. This character was both iconic and malleable: he was as at home on the streets as on the range and as a cop (in the Dirty Harry series), a convict (Escape from Alcatraz), a soldier (Heartbreak Ridge) and, later, a father figure like the Old Testament God--anyone with an intimidating presence and a sandpaper soul...
...gunfights outside.Singh said that the terrorists were throwing grenades indiscriminately in the street and that any lit building could have drawn fire.Singh said these attacks were particularly frightening because the gunmen were running around with AK-47s and were not suicide bombers.The terrorists were dressed in “western casuals,” Singh said, which made him and his friends even more wary and determined to stay inside, because they were worried about being wrongfully targeted. “We didn’t want to venture out because we might get shot by the police...