Word: fogged
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...Teacher Toll. The President declared his resolve before the kind of audience he likes-12,000 school administrators-in a place he has reason to regard fondly, Convention Hall in Atlantic City, where the Democratic Party acclaimed him as its presidential candidate 18 months ago. A dense fog that forced the cancellation of all commercial landings almost kept him away. But, braving a 100-ft. ceiling, he flew in aboard a Convair, soon was standing before the educators...
...Delicate Balance. On the day of the successful rendezvous, however, the fog that had shrouded Cape Kennedy during the night-and the cloud that had hovered over Gemini 6 even longer -suddenly blew away. "For the third time, go," exulted Schirra just before the Titan II left the pad in a launch that was as close to perfect as any in all the Cape's history...
...clear, brisk autumn day in London, but much of the country shivered in fog and freezing mist. As darkness fell, housewives turned on their lights and electric heaters, started brewing tea and cooking dinner on electric stoves, snapped on the telly. Then suddenly, bang on 5 o'clock, it was New York all over again. The lights went...
After a few more words--"I loved the blackout," she said. "It was beautiful and mysterious"--I left. It was twilight, and the Radcliffe quad was covered with ground fog. One of the street lights was very strange. It blinked on and off, on and off, like the light on a Christmas tree...
...Shakespeare's. Even with a normal-size screen, the camera, rarely moving in for a close-up or even a medium shot, tracks and frames the characters for a succession of strikingly beautiful compositions. And Kurosawa's time dilation--Macbeth and Banquo galloping endlessly in and out of the fog, or Duncan's pallbearers marching heavily up to the gates of his castle--shows the power that Hollywood in catering to the shortest common attention span, has sacrificed...