Word: smog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pessimist's short catechism?"It will get worse, it will get worse, it will get worse"?applies to tennis elbow, OPEC exactions, the seven ages of man, Skylab, the Middle East, airline food, the New Conservatism, college tuition, smog and the length and lack of substance of presidential campaigns. It does not apply to 17-year locusts?they come and they go?or, it is startling to realize, to movies. Just now, for instance, a trend is flowering unexpectedly and delightfully: for some reason that no one even pretends to be able to explain, an unusual number of extremely...
Cleveland is the city of oppression. Sordid, evil, satanic oppression. Billowing oppression with smoke so thick that it bogs down the flight of birds and raises important questions on genetic mutancy. A million people living under a smokestack. A helpless mayor and a cityful of businessmen controlling the smog from their air-conditioned suites. And a baseball team so hot and so cold that--for a few years, anyway--Cleveland is worth keeping...
...Prophecy talk. A lot. Long time. Enough exposition for five giant monster movies. Everybody has a point of view; so did I--I munched my popcorn and thought about the blonde three rows down. When it comes to mixing horror and blatant social criticism, I prefer Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster...
...caption with your picture of "the thriving, reconstructed Essen of today," belching smoke and blanketed by ugly smog should have said: "The Ruhr city of Essen in ruins...
Venice's recovery has not been easy. Many wells have been capped; aqueducts now bring in water from the Po Valley. To reduce the smog that has been eating away at Venice's marbled monuments, factories have installed filters on smokestacks and homeowners are turning increasingly to natural gas instead of sulfurous coal. City fathers are also planning new sewage systems, as well as a widening of the shipping locks that lead into Venice's historic lagoon. All that should help ensure the survival of this crowning jewel of the Adriatic...