Word: hazing
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...cuts between short scenes are nothing short of brilliant, and the segues between fantastic and real scenes breathtaking. Schumacher chose an appropriately gorgeous and gothic campus (Loyola University in Chicago), as well as sparse city streets that are supremely atmospheric, and bathed them in haunting blue light, tatters and haze...
...grab my ancient cat, Minnie, and the manuscript of a book just two weeks from completion. By the time I tried to jump into my car to drive away, walls of flame were jumping over the driveway, scorching my face and shrouding the house in an angry orange haze. The three of us leaped, pursued by flames, into a van, and started to race down the mountain road. Within 50 yards, we knew we could go no farther. Flames 70 feet high were cresting over the curve of the hill on one side, and on the other, currents of orange...
...domain of purer light and color, had been his obsession since his first trips to Provence in his Fauvist years. In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow in street and alley, the blue haze of light behind ogival arches...
...with fellow Caltech aeronautical engineers Tombach and Peter Lissaman, derives most of its annual $17 million revenue from the monitoring and control of air pollution and hazardous wastes. One current contract, for example, involves determining the contribution of Arizona's giant coal-fired Navajo power plant to the haze that sometimes hampers visibility around the nearby Grand Canyon...
Only now, as democratic revolutions take hold, is the full extent of Eastern Europe's stunning ecological disaster emerging. Flying over Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany on an otherwise clear day, one can see whole valleys enveloped in a heavy blue haze from the belching smokestacks that disfigure the landscape. Littered across the East bloc, obsolete and unsafe nuclear reactors are decaying, each threatening a reprise of the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The Danube River and Baltic Sea are deadly sumps. Many lakes and streams are fishless, forests are dying, and blackened cities are decorated with pollution-eroded sculpture...