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Altman had me hooked from the credits, in which the camera cruises high above an eerie topography--both parched and veined with swamps--while the composer, Mark Isham, serves up off-the-beat thumps and hollow brass gongs, and fragments of cell-phone conversations remain just on the far side of audibility.
So what is the explanation of the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey ? Well, the obvious one, I believe.
Ahem ... after writing that sentence, I looked in a rock reference book and found that "Brass in Pocket" hit No. 14 stateside.
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.
The Journal says that even with a new wavelet of improved weapons, the top brass doubts that the air attacks they're planning can destroy all of Iraq's most terrible weapons or even change Saddam's behavior.