Word: hazing
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Claude is nearly 17, and the only thing in his head is, to employ a euphemism, girls. Like every teen-age male in creation, he sees the world through a spermy haze, a green fog of concupiscence. He runs after girls in the street, and when he overtakes one, doesn't know where to put his eyes, his hands, his conversation. He is quite normal...
...varied impressionistic scenes of her youth. Mitchell comes close to the warm chords she used in earlier pieces, like the instrumental break in "Down To You," (Court and Spark) but there is a constant tension beneath the surface, a dissonance that colors the music as the ugly drug haze shades her reverie. The instrumental has a definite form, with recurring themes and a refrain, but it is not rigidly structured. This passage makes for poor background music. As a tone poem, however, it powerfully strikes the listener...
...quirks in Texas law. Cattlemen, for example, don't have to fence their animals in. Farmers who want to protect their crops have to fence cattle out. Kramer achieves the intended effect: to show the American cowboy riding off, not into a glowing sunset but into a haze of statistics...
Commercially, the city is fast regaining its old hustle. Rubble has been cleared from most streets; with it went a noxious haze that had shrouded the city. Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume...
...Youngstown, Ohio, the permanent dirty haze in the air and the oily filth in the slow-running Mahoning River have long spelled money. For 85 years, Youngstown has prided itself on being the quintessential steel city, the capital of "America's Ruhr Valley" and more heavily dependent on this one industry for jobs than any other town of the same size. But now Youngstowners-and even more the citizens of neighboring Campbell and Struthers-live with a nightmare that the air will one day soon be clean and fish will again swim in the Mahoning. Last week Youngstown Sheet...