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...social pressures; (5) are a means of connecting with others (“Can I bum a cig?” or “You wanna go have a smoke and talk?”); (6) engender constant fiddling; (7) are more convenient versions of an existing technology (pipe is to cigarette as landline is to cell phone); and (8) are incongruous luxuries for Third World inhabitants, often at the expense of basic necessities. Indeed, where Humphrey Bogart once stumped for “Turf” cigarettes, now Pierce Brosnan’s 007 testifies that he only...
...although taken in Paris, have probably been included in this collection simply because, for the purposes of description, they might as well have been taken in America) depict the moral bankruptcy and decadence of the 1930's in terms of space and the objects that occupy it. An opium pipe, a negligent smoker of that pipe, and the chaise lounge upon which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus is dim: the space is uninviting...
...girls have approached me about [Car Talk]. “It’s a conversation starter,” says Magliozzi. When asked what kind of transmission part he’d be Drew says he would be “an exhaust pipe because I’ve got to take a lot of hot air from my dad and my uncle...
...into lower Manhattan Friday to stand at the center of the terrorist winter, surrounded by men and women working day and night to help the living and recover the dead. He had come to thank the people the whole world wanted to thank--the cops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home among them...
...inability to get away [are what] makes these burns so severe," says Dr. Roger Yurt, director of the unit. One patient, scorched by a fireball of debris, lies almost completely swathed in bandages under a tent of heat shields and blankets. Another, propelled forward by a ruptured steam pipe, is scorched along his back and the back of his legs but was miraculously spared on the entire front of his body--a stark representation of the arbitrary line drawn between health and injury, normality and trauma, life and death...