Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently, of intelligent drama within the confines of this suddenly popular form, one would settle for a good how-to movie. The actors might as well be giving us some odd or useful information instead of straight-face lines like "Did you leave a cigarette burning?" as clouds of smoke roll into a room. It would be interesting to know, for instance, why the fire develops in such an erratic manner, hitting some floors brutally, then skipping ten or 20 before breaking out again. One would like to learn, as well, the larger strategic considerations that enter into Fireman McQueen...
...story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...
...telephone lines on which two staffers take up to 5,000 calls a day. Bennett contends that he has turned more than a score of obscure songs into gold hits-among them Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl, Seals and Crofts' Summer Breeze and Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water-because listeners told him that those were the songs the public wanted to hear...
...remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters to salvage the tobacco for resale, while the boy stays alive scrounging for junk in sewers. A happy ending eventually sets in but not before the forces of meanness and darkness...
...self-consciously linked to a whole school of children's homilies about wayward tugboats, ambitious trains and old snow shovels that have cruelly been retired too soon. In the first, a small, bored little engine chuffs away from the town of Little Snoreing toward such smoke-filled cities as High Yelling and Great Scolding only to learn that freedom isn't as much fun as it's cracked up to be. In the second, a pony-drawn fire engine and a faithful old fireman named Sam Trolley are briefly, agonizingly rendered obsolete by a scheming mayor...