Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affair. He has Lawyer Eliot deride the proposition that "character and belief go hand-in-hand." But is a head-hunter's character unaffected by his beliefs? Snow goes on to suggest that all that separates the West from the Communist world is "a fog of prejudice" that can be dissipated by compromise. This is to ignore entirely that the character of the West has been molded by belief in the rule of law, and the character of Communism has been shaped by belief in the jungle claw...
...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...Smog, in his words, is the story of "the future borghese [bourgeois] headed for ultimate material prosperity. I foresee this soon in Italy, and I wanted to show where we are headed." Director Federico Fellini has foreseen pretty much the same thing, and Smog is a kind of ground-fog version of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Like Fellini, Rossi weights his work with symbolism and tells his story in round after round of parties. Like Fellini, he used actual people playing themselves in a picture depicting their own degradation, including Playboy Peter Howard who, curiously enough, was host...
...endless repeats that bring him in continuing fees, known in the trade as "residuals," he makes about $300,000 a year. He can imitate anything from the cry of a loon to the whining drawl of a mountaineer, run effortlessly through all the categories of voice quality-rasp, strain, fog, nasal, sinus. He can shift ground from tight-lipped British to loose-lipped Brooklynese to American rural, and run analytically through the ages of man, making his voice grow older as he progresses from the breathiness of childhood to the cracking articulations of the elderly...
Swift saw the situation and answered reassuringly in a soft urban fog made more casual by the experienced slur of a 55-year-old. "Is it a lead pencil or a mechanical pencil?" he asked. At least 3,000 tons of worry visibly lifted from the ad man's forehead. "Is it round or hexagonal?" Swift went on gently. "Does it have an eraser?" He got the job. And what did the pencil finally sound like? "Literate," recalls Swift, "-and thin...