Word: clouding
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...measures. Rauh insisted that Rocke feller was unfit for office because of his wealth. "A vote for confirmation," said Rauh, "is a vote for a [potential] President who will never spend a day with out a serious conflict of interest and whose White House will exist under a dark cloud of suspicion...
...speed. Peter Revson's helmet was painted into a big toothy smile, but he died setting a track record in South America. So far there have been no accidents this weekend. All at once I hear the crickets' song. The heat is over. From the bog floats a black cloud of smoke. It is feasting. Down from the sky plunge Navy parachutists, trailing red, white and blue chutes...
...last story, The Cloud, possesses one of Fowles' faults?a facile, painterly dreaminess?without his vigorous grasp on the facts that make illusion matter. Fowles' themes in all these elegant stories are the surprise of passion v. the safety of tradition, abstraction v. spontaneity, and more broadly, the secrets of art (including Fowles' own art) played against a fictive "reality" that represents merely his own deeper lamination of imagined life. Fowles, like any other storyteller, tells his tale?and then has the shimmering perversity to let his readers know that maybe he was lying all the time, or that life...
...utterly lost. Until he begins to discover "what America means." He breaks away from a servile tradition of centuries and strikes off as a small independent businessman. In the famous scene when he recites the Gettysburg Address, it's all one can do to keep it together--the feudal cloud breaks and Ruggles, head high, joins the ranks of people who are "equal," even teaching the Americans a little bit of European style along the way. Wonderful stuff. Edward Everett Horton was Ruggles in 1923, and Bob Hope's 1950 Fancy Pants took its cue from the story...
...first was a green-and-white container made by the American Can Co. for the now defunct Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co. of Newark-experts estimate that as many as 12,000 domestic beer labels have been turned out since then. They include such obsolete brands as Cloud Nine, Simon Pure, Nu Deal, Wooden Shoe, Tube City and King Snedley...