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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...band, in deference, toned down its horns just enough to provide a rich field for the two soloists to romp in. And when the improvisational smoke finally cleared, the performers had come a little closer to realizing student manager David Small's inevitable goal of "having people come to Harvard because of jazz." Hopefully, Monday night's concert will signal the beginning of Harvard's sprint to overtake the rest of the collegiate runners in a race to recognize jazz's rightful place on campus...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Up-Beat | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...movie's special effects can't be duplicated on stage, but they are skillfully replaced by a barrage of techniques including microphones, film projection, and smoke bombs. Director Larry Artenian has managed to pull off old tricks in new ways--for example, a strobe light chase scene in the castle of the Wicked Witch--almost steals the show. But if the special effects are original, the actors' costumes and accents aim to be just like the movie. The Tin Man is perfect down to the silver paint on his eyelids, and if the winged monkeys look a little like bellhops...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Oz You Like It | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

Some third-floor residents found their exit blocked by heavy smoke in the entry. David R. Fine '75 said yesterday he was "overwhelmed by smoke" as he descended the stairs, and was forced to return to his room and jump to fire nets below...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Fire Guts Suite in Lowell; One Student Hospitalized | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...guides began icing up, I kept stopping to smoke, and even the wet line started catching little ice crystals. The only good thing about the situation was the clarity of the day and the incredible landscape...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

...nice middleclass folks. Maybe the moral resonance of the play infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence are those with their own natural appeal, like John Carito's Journeyman. The others sometimes blow too-sinister cigar smoke, and take over the simpler, symbolic function of the leering village idiot...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Good People | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

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