Word: blowtorch
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...Instead, the purpose was to weld a humanoid faceplate onto the gleaming titanium circuitry of Al Gore. Holding the blowtorch was wife Tipper, who not only introduced her husband but narrated and shot many of the still pictures used in the movie. It was a savvy move: Even to someone who grew up listening to her PMRC campaign being reviled by Ice-T and Mojo Nixon, Tipper turns out to be a moralist who's tough to hate, every bit as easygoing and approachable as her husband is stereotypically stiff. ("Al and Tipper: She's human enough for both...
...Then I saw the ladder from the evacuation," Hank Meijer relates. "My first thought was, That's an important piece of history; perhaps I can pay somebody a few hundred bucks to weld it off with a blowtorch, then crate it up and ship it back to Michigan for display at the Ford Museum." He resisted, but when he returned to Grand Rapids and told his father about the ladder, Fred Meijer was captivated, and determined to put those "18 steps to freedom" on permanent display before the American people. He figured his fellow board members at the Ford Foundation...
...engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help!" one screams. "A skinhead with a blowtorch...