Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been said about one of the most primitive features of the new Visual Arts Center; the tall colored panels between the windows can be opened to provide a degree of natural ventilation in the upper four floors. This innovation would not have surprised the Indian who left a smoke hole in the top of his tepee and generous gaps around the bottom, but subsequent American architecture has largely overcome natural ventilation...
...Unity. Despite his wealth, he shuns luxuries, has no hobbies, and usually reads himself to sleep over bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...
...bearded little Lothario killed ten women is not shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic throughout...
First the Ibis disappeared, then some common (comment) books vanished, then a smoke bomb exploded, and now a phony cocktail party is revealed. Boy, are those 'Poonies ever having...
...Like rats out of a sewer," said one witness of the aftermath. Another described a lingering "could of brilliant yellow smoke." So ended the fun at Freedom Square last midnight when an army surplus smoke bomb thrown into the window of the Harvard Lampoon from Bow St. brought the festivities of election night...