Word: smokebomb
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...time the eco-terrorists show up--a band of tree sitters, with names like Lynx and Aquarius and Smokebomb, who drop from the skies, rappelling down the trunks of a redwood grove onstage--your head is already spinning. Daughters of the Revolution, one-half of David Edgar's two-play cycle about an American political campaign called Continental Divide, has mostly been talk up to this point. But what talk! The play has nearly 50 characters, rapid-fire dialogue and an impossibly complicated plot involving leftover '60s radicals, skeletons in the closet, the clash between ideals and pragmatism in politics...
AILING. Michael Jackson, 25, top pop-record and video performer (Thriller); from second degree scalp and back burns after an exploding smokebomb canister ignited his hair during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial. A Los Angeles doctor who treated the singer said that he might need reconstructive surgery...
...weather was too bad. The infantry had to attack the hard way. Two weeks ago doughboys crossed the moat and scaled the sides of the fort, then were driven back by the Germans. Last week they tried again. Infantrymen fought their way into the fort through phosphorus and smokebomb clouds, tried to burn out its occupants with blazing oil. The Americans, clinging to the top, could hear the Germans scurry through the tunnels below, but they noted no sag in the defense, which went on from lower levels...
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