Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOG, DENSE AND LUSH, curling its way through London alleys and along seedy docksides, in and out of dingy shops and smudged and broken windows, obscuring the face of Big Ben himself and wrapping around the skirts of chilled and hapless prostitutes...
...sinister black coach drawn by sinister black horses in the sinister black night, the fog muffling the beat of hooves on cobblestones, and inside, one of Britain's most famous Victorians slowly savors the edge of a jeweled dagger, and waits...
...careened the wrong way down a one-way street at full speed. As we neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy's main gate, which a crowd was trying to burst through. I was swept into a group of about 15 people, who crashed the lock and surged into the compound. Suddenly several Khomeini men pushed through the crowd...
...More important, we understand that his attentions are enough to restore her sense of her own worth, to bring her out of her temporary insanity. One might perhaps wish that Apted had not used a diffusion filter quite as often as he did (it sometimes seems the English fog has crept into almost every room his characters occupy), and that he had allowed a little more light to shine on some of his scenes. Nevertheless, and despite the Christie family's objections to this invasion of their historical privacy, this is a very nice movie: quietly, slyly witty, confident...
...single-engine Cessna 172, Stetson's private plane, went down at 7:13 p.m. in heavy rain and fog outside Dutchess County airport...