Word: smoked
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This is circus stripped down to its most basic elements: simple blue tent, one ring, two clowns and none of the fancy smoke or lighting that has become commonplace in the increasingly sophisticated recent big-top circus revival. This month, Cirque de Soleil pitches its tent for the eagerly anticipated “Dralion,” its newest, biggest and most expensive (and expansive) production ever at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, while earlier this year, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey offered a three-ring flashy extravaganza, “Kaleidoscope,” in a massive...
...Winston Churchill, as we know, stayed up late in order to drink brandy and smoke cigars. In the morning when he came to, he would breakfast on a whisky and water, and then work in bed for hours. He was perhaps the exception proving Henry Luce's rule that no man who stays in bed after nine a.m. will ever amount to anything...
...mood was bittersweet Friday night as hordes of students and local residents crowded into the smoke-filled...
...scene must have been spectacular. Whether that spectacle is understood as deeply felt or empty depends on later interpretation. "The place was as vast as a small city. There were literally thousands of priests, attendants, temple soldiers and minions," writes historian Paul Johnson. "Dignity was quite lost amid the smoke of the pyres, the bellows of terrified beasts, the sluices of blood, the abattoir stench, the unconcealed and unconcealable machinery of tribal religion inflated by modern wealth to an industrial scale...
...Spurs and Jazz have likewise reaped the benefits of a clean and sober team. While Stockton and Malone have perfected the pick-and-roll over the years, players like Odom seem to care more about the roll-and-smoke than such basketball fundamentals. Tim Duncan and David Robinson have likewise presented a huge challenge to opponents, playing high above the rim while much of the rest of the league is just playing high. Noticeably absent on these top teams are the drug violations that have plagued several other elite teams around the league...