Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid and whose practice put grandfather to sleep on Sunday afternoons...
...Many of them have proved to be extraneous objects like newspapers, balloons, or distant airplanes," Menzel writes. "Others have been searchlight or automobile-headlight reflections on a thin layer of could or haze. The most puzzling and frightening of all saucer phenomena are those that have come from reflections and refractions from drops of water, ice crystals, or even from the air itself. Thus, all reports of saucers, those from the air or ground, those seen at night or during the day, those detected visually or by radar, result from unusual or unfamiliar conditions in the atmosphere...
...Nine is too uneven. high MIG, but it disappeared in a haze. The wingman tangled with the diving MIG, which had a resourceful pilot in the cockpit. When the wingman had tired himself out trying to get a shot, Low took over, and the Red pilot almost tired Low out, trying to scrape him off against a high ridge, then trying to blind him in the sun. At last Low got the enemy in his sights, poured .50-caliber slugs into the engine and tail section, saw the MIG's canopy fly off. But the American needed...
...showed his Phillies hurtling into home plate, reaching for high throws, waiting narrow-eyed for the pitch. His crowds sit in the smoky blue haze of night games, ripple away like waves as a pop foul lands in their midst...
...work. Shot in authentic Parisian settings, the picture features muted blue-green backgrounds splashed with hot pinks, burnt oranges and yellows as Lautrec's lonely little figure hobbles down Montmartre's cobblestone streets, or as the cancan dancers come on in the heat and haze of the Moulin Rouge in a swirl of black silk stockings and white lace petticoats. At its visual best, the picture is a Lautrec painting come to life: it has the nervous, whip-cracking line, the absinthe bite, the very color of corruption of Lautrec's Paris...