Word: hazing
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...play last summer at the Bath Festival in England. In what both performers termed "an experiment," Menuhin practiced his violin for two days under Shankar's coaching so that he could sit in on a raga. Clad in a raw-silk tunic and sitting cross-legged amid a haze of incense, Menuhin might indeed have passed for a native fidllist, except that he did not rest the head of his fiddle on his toe in the traditional Indian manner...
...western end of the drought-parched Tamiami Trail, grass fires burned from horizon to horizon, and the sun was nearly blotted out by the bitter brown haze. Smog shrouded Miami, and acrid smoke choked much of the rest of southern Florida. The magnificent Everglades National Park-the timeless, endless "river of grass"-was drying up like a farmer's mudhole in August, and the smallest spark quickly turned into a blaze...
East Germany, it appears as if the war were only yesterday." The countryside, with its villages, horse-drawn carts and unmechanized farms, looks as if the clock had been turned back 30 or 40 years. The highways are potholed and traffic ranges from light to nonexistent. The blue haze of soft-coal smoke seems to shroud the cities, adding to the ever-present smells of cabbage and disinfectant. The cautious satirists in East Berlin's Distel (Thistle) cabaret suggested one socialist solution for some of East Germany's ills: nose plugs...
...best-publicized fights in boxing history. Some of his victims were stiffs, but most of them were decidedly more skilled than Clay's critics would admit. Nobody today denies that he is a superb boxer, but Clay himself beclouded that fact long ago in a great golden haze of self-generated mythology about his life outside the ropes-his ridiculous, irreverent verses, his portentous prophecies, his jazzy clothes, his religion, his wife, the draft board that he dodges as agilely as he ducks a left...
From above, it looked like a dirty blanket enfolding the whole northeast. Pilots dipping from crystalline skies prepared abruptly to make instrument landings. In midmorning, motorists inched through the Stygian haze with smarting eyes and headlights ablaze. Skyscrapers were amputated at the midriff. Pedestrians in city streets gasped at the miasmal murk even as newspaper headlines screamed that their next breath might be a dose of poison...