Word: smoked
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...barrages of hip, carefully-controversial rap, or slick discs on which the artist has about as much to do with the sound as the cover photographer is a bit like walking from a high-powered cocktail reception into a raucous Irish pub. Suddenly the place is full of smoke, foot stamping music and competing voices in various states of unpredictability, love proclamations and self-declamation. Flipping to Suzanne Vega’s latest release puts you at the bar at four in the morning, with the floor being mopped sitting opposite the woman who you’ve been trying...
...Carl Sandburg poem, “Skyscrapers,” made a fitting eulogy for the World Trade Center itself. Ken Cheeseman’s reading began with the line: “By the day, the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul.” A celebration of those who worked within the towars and of the proud buildings themselves, the piece was appropriately sobering and provocative...
...stopped writing poems, / I should wish you a long silence.” The next piece, significantly, is Murray’s take on the transformation of music in the modern day, written in a purposely unmelodic rhyming pattern, “the hypnotic one like weed-smoke at a party / and the muscular one out of farty / cars that goes Whudda Whudda...
Most Amusing Section: I hold my section hours in Algiers because I smoke like a madman. It’s impossible to get anyone there even though I buy them drinks
...While the Taliban mullahs and their bodyguards sped away towards the Afghan border, the rest of us passengers stared numbly at the distant city of Quetta, under a haze of tear gas as black smoke poured from a few buildings. Later, I learned that the anti-American mob had torched several movie theaters, which have been showing "Desperado" and "Gladiator." They also burned down the U.N. offices because-well, who knows why. Maybe they didn't like the big blue lettering on the U.N. sign. Behind us, a few Pakistani MiG fighter jets were screaming back and forth across...