Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to the President's aides very early in the game, when the smoke began to rise, and conveyed my serious doubts about the nomination," says Mathias. "They asked me to keep an open mind to the end. So I did not put myself in the position of an irreversible commitment." But Mathias could not shake his doubts about Haynsworth. "There is a crying need for the Supreme Court to be lifted above controversy and suspicion. I also wondered what effect a condonation of Judge Haynsworth's actions would have on the judiciary at large. I could only...
...spend most of the evening dumping each other in and out of wheelbarrows, piecing together homely sections of stovepipe and finally, one by one, entering a crematorium. The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will channel the smoke of their own burning flesh makes Akropolis the most powerful indictment of genocide that has been rendered in the theater...
...contrast, Raquel has two children by a former marriage to her high school sweetheart, and is presently wed to an inoffensive uncelebrity named Patrick Curtis. She does not flounce around studio sets in see-through blouses by day or boogaloo at the Factory by night. She does not smoke. She does not drink. She rarely entertains. Says Writer Rex Reed, who will make his screen debut as Myron Breckinridge, Myra's alter ego: "Raquel is a very complex girl. She is terribly, terribly interested in being taken seriously. She has elected to be a movie star, but underneath that creamy...
Eventually everyone on stage was too tired or drunk to read or play, and we emptied out of the hall. The cold was refreshing after the body heat and smoke of indoors. We strolled through the Yard, talking about Brautigan and hoping to be things that we aren...
Recent counts of suspended particulates (smoke and ash) in Boston's air are, on the average, about 25 per cent higher than the "adverse health effects" figures set by the U.S. Public Health Service. The Massachusetts Department of Health's tentative control proposal is the same as the minimum "adverse health effects" level, according to a leaflet distributed by the coalition...