Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...
...good day and when his car holds up, is probably the world's best driver. But Moss, who had earlier broken the speed limit and outraced an enraged sheriff on his way to the track, slowed to a halt on the fifth lap in an ooze of black smoke from a crippled gearbox. That left Britain's Dentist-Driver Tony Brooks as the only other threat to Brabham, but Brooks was having trouble getting his Ferrari out of the turns...
...dress, architecture and behavior to be seen in the ruins and sculptures of Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley that nourished and died 4,000 years ago. Yet next door to the oxcart and the primitive wooden plow lies an India as modern as Pittsburgh, with belching smoke by day and glaring fire by night...
...characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...
...dialogue awakened cafe scents of strong smoke, dry cognac and refracted thought ("Suppose you die and find out that the dead are only the living playing at being dead")And the story of an intellectual mamma's boy Communist up against a tough, cynical but gallant revolutionary was shot through with Marxist analysis. With such qualities Jean-Paul Sartre's Crime of Passion seemed an unlikely play for TV. But viewers in the New York area saw it last week, in a full-length and absorbing production, well acted by a cast that included Claude Dauphin and Betsy...