Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secondly, the New Hampshire victory supplies a convenient smoke screen under which the Johnson forces can pour heavy financial and organizational reserves into Wisconsin and the later primaries. The President was unwilling to appear overly concerned about the McCarthy challenge in New Hampshire. Now his campaign can be couched as a justifiable effort in self-defense rather than an exercise in overkill...
Just as Kennedy could not get two-thirds of the vote in a campaign on the issues, he will have trouble getting more than two-thirds in a campaign based on local strength. This may seem surprising. After all, it is exactly this smoke-filled room influence in which Kennedy is supposed to be so superior to McCarthy. Yet he cannot unite his adopted state behind him. For a nationally prominent politician, Kennedy has too many gaps in his state machinery...
...before the last moments of director Joseph Timko's adaption of Adolpho Bioy Casares' story makes very little sense. Eight bizarre people, vacationing on an otherwise abandoned island, stand around for six out of eight scenes before letting us know what's doing. Self-consciously they sip drinks and smoke cigarettes, all the while commenting obliquely on thunderstorms and ghosts, and on such standbys as truth and illusion. Every so often a long-winded narrator, sort of a supernatural Walt Disney, interrupts to fill those details too difficult to dramatize. Sound and light effects also butt in from time...
...impact of Hamilton's remarks lingered heavily in the smoke-filled air above the conference table. While some students began quickly scribbling notes and questions, Hamilton continued, his voice taking on a matter-of-fact tone and the tiredness of his two days of meetings...
...southerners rattle off Italian with ease-and are only slightly less adept at the appropriate hand gestures. Italian influence also remains in the crumbling old arches and seaside villas, the pasta and Italian wines served in restaurants and the 1934 Fiat trucks that disgorge angry clouds of billowy, greasy smoke in the streets of the capital of Mogadishu...