Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flight 122 from San Francisco was approaching Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Dense fog shrouded the field, cutting the visibility down so much that even the control tower operators could see only inches beyond their windows. In earlier times, as late as 1980, the pilot would have circled in a fixed pattern along with other planes, perhaps for an hour or more, hoping for a break in the weather. Or headed for another city. Either choice would have been painful for nerve-racked passengers and costly for the airline. Yet the skipper of Flight 122 blandly announced...
When a heavy sea fog rests on its frightful desolation, a place better fitted to represent the infernal regions could scarcely be found ... Death would be preferable to banishment to such a country...
Claude is nearly 17, and the only thing in his head is, to employ a euphemism, girls. Like every teen-age male in creation, he sees the world through a spermy haze, a green fog of concupiscence. He runs after girls in the street, and when he overtakes one, doesn't know where to put his eyes, his hands, his conversation. He is quite normal...
...flame from the Grease road company who is still a close friend, was reminiscing recently about how they would skip down the streets of Manhattan's West Side, making up little street improvisations to play out. One rainy day inspired a fantasy of sinister dealings in a dense London fog. "I'd say to him, 'Is 'e coming?' " Marilu laughs. "And John would look over his shoulder and say, 'No, I don't think so.' " Another acquaintance, trying to summon an example of the Travolta wit, could recall only his remark to the husband of a very pregnant wife...
Marilu maintains that Johnny is "definitely a one-woman man, very selective. He's not the kind of person you worry about at a party." Marilu and Johnny moved in together back in Manhattan, played out their fantasies of London fog and foreign intrigue on the Upper West Side, ate tuna melts and guacamole (never at the same sitting), listened a lot to the sound track from Last Tango in Paris, and even worked together in a show called Over Here! By the last night of the show, Travolta had resolved to try his luck Out There. In Hollywood...