Word: filteration
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...smoker who was dissatisfied with al most everything he heard before the subcommittee was Kentucky's Thruston Morton, a Senator with his tobacco-farming constituents' interests at heart. Throughout, he sat with a dyspeptic scowl for the medical experts and a curiously unsympathetic attitude toward the Strickman filter, which, if proved effective, could prove a Golconda for his planters. "O.K.," snapped Morton, "we'll all stop smoking, and you'll upset the economy...
Morton claimed that in 1966 Strick man had taken his filter to Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., which tested the device and rejected it because it was too tightly compacted, as any effective filter might be. Indeed, observed Dr. Ernest Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, filters that significantly cut tars and nicotine "are so tight that when you smoke these cigarettes you develop a hernia...
Though he will not discuss his formula, Strickman said from his hospital room that cigarettes with his filter will "draw" perfectly well. "I took a form of the same filter material to Brown & Williamson," he said, "but I never entered their laboratories. They were' not interested. Since then I have made some adjustments to make it draw more easily...
...screen, a string of dusty, fly-bitten Southwestern roadhouses and farms. (One booboo: the use of post-1934 dollar bills.) But repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this, if you please, was the U.S. entry in this year's Montreal Film Festival...
...Many of her effects would be impossible without the marvelous unit set designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian--two converging cavernous walls of shiny but unsmooth silver, parts of which can swing in; and, hovering overhead, a structure suggestive of some enormous gray mythic bat, through whose wings lights sometimes filter. Ter-Arutunian also designed the costumes, which belong to no one period. For the most part they are of gray and black, though Macbeth and his wife are symbolically garbed in blood-red on their first entrance as king and queen. There is rather too much of John Duffy...