Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four huge Carrier motors that will climatize the city's new Astrodome-enclosed sports stadium were test-run in preparation for next month's baseball season opener. The equipment will keep temperatures under the dome in the moderate 70s, and will also clear away cigarette and cigar smoke so that outfielders can see a baseball 550 ft. away. The air conditioners will operate continuously; if the motors were turned off between games, so much humidity would collect under the dome that rain would fall indoors...
...certain tranquilizing caress that was his vocal signature and sustained him admirably through the years while legions of belters and bleaters flourished and died. With moistened lips and a flashing, yard-wide smile, he let a song uncurl from his cavernous mouth with the nonchalance of a man blowing smoke rings. He savored each vowel until it whispered in the ear. He excelled at romantic ballads-Too Young, Unforgettable, Somewhere Along the Way, Pretend, Answer Me, My Love, Ramblin' Rose-which made up the bulk of his $50 million record sales...
...exacting student Albert Bierstadt, then 24 (later to become one of the chief chroniclers of the Rocky Mountain landscape), to climb a ladder and touch up the bright sky on the left. There was precious little tranquillity that he could add to the blood-and-thunder turbulence of gun smoke...
...enow music. The Baker Street Irregulars test the floorboards occasionally and the boards hold. Three ballet boys garrote one of Holmes's trusty lieutenants in an artily choreographed frenzy of mincing violence. From time to time, the orchestra strikes up, but scarcely tunes. Where there's smoke, there's fog, and that is where most of the London atmosphere comes from, except for a rooftop view of the Diamond Jubilee Parade through Trafalgar Square, with tiny Grenadier Guard puppets and the Queen's jeweled coach crossing a slanted backdrop that for one enchanting moment truly fools...
Between the two parties, Richard Neustadt sits like a chief justice, and he seems well suited to the role. He chain smokes cigarettes or a belching pipe, and his words come out like an oracle's from behind a maze of smoke. But the oracle is indecisive at the moment. "You understand, I don't commit myself to anything for more than five minutes," he explains. "We're still gathering ideas...