Word: hazing
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Other problems aren't as easily covered up. Beijing spent more than $17 billion to improve its environment, but days before the Games, the air is still a toxic haze. Even with new laws taking more than half the city's cars off the road, the addition of Olympic VIP lanes has left traffic nearly as bad as ever...
...city's preparation for the Games, it says that pollution remains an outstanding concern. And so as the countdown clock in Tiananmen Square winds down to zero, worries grow that the $17 billion spent on environmental cleanup won't keep the Games from being clouded by a choking haze...
...jazz, or steal cars and drive to Denver, or just “burn, burn, burn, like a fabulous yellow roman candle” it is with a vigor which marks the rest of us as dead, a bad penny vitality and a grubby crucifixion which make lectures and Haze-Bick existentialism seem extremely square...
...timing and sequence, and to get people into stitches you need to keep ’em coming. The writers of these films seem to be hyper-conscious of this fact—and the effect is that they can leave the viewer in a bit of a comedic haze upon viewing. I remember leaving “Knocked Up” amused, not remembering what exactly was funny but knowing that something surely was. The same thing goes for the latest out of Apatow’s plant, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” the romcom...
...demands for liberation. The rich backup vocals provided by keyboardist Hannah Collins make one wish her voice played a larger role on the album. Swaby seems to be singing directly to the listener when he asks, “Remember how we were kids when we were high on haze? We never knew about the way things were.” With any luck, these Brits can help some American kids appreciate their own musical roots a bit better, so they can know “about the way things were...