Word: fogging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cool and comparatively low decibel. Borrowing from the Hay den Planetarium, light specialists have devised a laser-beam system that throws streamers of color over the dancers and peppers the floor with shards of light. At one moment, the crowd may be enveloped by a mixture of fog and Faberge; at another, clouds of red smoke billow from the floor, subsiding in a gentle shower of emerald as a green laser beam bounces off mirrored balls festooning the ceiling...
Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The paratroopers' radios were faulty, so communication with them was impossible; fog in England hampered air-support operations; the road over which the ground forces were supposed to travel was too narrow, slowing their progress to a painful crawl. Finally, there were more German troops in the area than the Allied high command expected, partly because they had ignored their own intelligence reports...
...dances are jaggedly choreographed, incidental music has the tex ture of a blind fog, and the costumes might have been purchased on the Skid Row of the Casbah. The acting is on the high school epic level - strident, collision-prone and panicky. Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater ought to be declared a disaster area...
...Says a CBS executive: "Remember that Paley is 75 and can't work 18 hours day after day. He is like Zeus without the quiver full of lightning bolts. But you've still got to keep your ears open around here for boulders crashing through the fog. Paley can still throw them...
...those screaming fans were bumming me out bad, making me feel like some gladiator on his last legs in the Coliseum. Then through the fog in my mind came the realization that the cheers were voiced not in blood lust or competitive drive, but in appreciation of personal achievement. Like "Rocky," I had gone the distance, and despite the cheers it was a very private accomplishment, a very private reward...