Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkish jets were over Famagusta and Nicosia, making passes in Nicosia's International Airport area and dive-bombing the southwestern part of the city, where the headquarters of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, the civil police and the government radio station are clustered together. Dense clouds of black smoke billowed all over Nicosia, with the loud explosions of Turkish bombs being punctuated by the ineffective bang-bang of Greek Cypriot antiaircraft guns...
Stories written about bars become tiresome after a while. The faces, the cigarette smoke, the chatter and chintzy music tend to blend into an indistinct, sickly blather. And the same, hopefully, will happen with what has become the "in" bar in Washington, the White House. Then, perhaps, the American public will learn what the new president is really like...
...such as To Die in Madrid that we can truly understand the tragedy of the destruction of the Spanish Republic. We see avid militiamen raising clenched fists out the windows of railroad cars headed for the front. We then see them scurrying like scared rabbits through the din and smoke of the battlefield, advancing in spite of their terror. We are witness to heaps of mutilated bodies lying in fields where, a year earlier, wheat was almost ready for harvest...
...PAUL OPERA is an adventurous, four-year-old summer festival with an extensive following not only in Minnesota but also in bordering Wisconsin and Iowa. It has given the world premiere of Lee Hoiby's Summer and Smoke, the American premiere of Carl Nielsen's Maskarade, and staged such other esoterica as Delius' A Village Romeo and Juliet and Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice...
...cram as much experience into a soujourn away from New York as possible, reveling in bars and dirt and cheap hotels and the like. Anything that smacks of either youth culture or the working class or, best of all, a combination of the two, sends him into ecstasy. Smoking marijuana, for instance, especially in a factory or a commune, is always tremendously meaningful: "The smoke striking into my lungs sends my blood leaping. And soon the flying sparks, the hot steel, the raging, exploding furnaces above us seem like mere frivolities on a carnival night...