Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contamination of the atmosphere by Four Corners Power Plant is so pervasive that smoke from the plant was the only evidence of current human activity on earth visible from the moon during the Apollo space program...
...silently to himself. Other times the Road Man (medicine man) passed the prayer stick to some one who would sing and chant to the accompaniment of the water drum. This is a religion of the earth, and the ceremony involved humbling me to all living things. The fire, the smoke, the peyote, are all seen as means of putting the body and the prayer out into the elements. The purpose of this ceremony was to call upon the forces of nature to give me strength and wisdom to come back...
...four-wheel drive to get back into this camp. I had been insulated from extreme poverty before because I lived in one of the settlements. This man lived in a traditional round mud constructed hogan, with no windows, a hole in the roof to let out smoke and let in light, and an old mattress on the floor for a bed. The ceremony he did with me involved my humbling myself before all of nature, and truly feeling, through intensive prayer and meditiation, that all nature, all existence, is interdependant; and man is only one simple humble part...
Contradictions are common among the plethora of regulations laid down by different agencies. While the Department of Energy was busy regulating for greater industrial use of domestic coal to cut oil imports, the EPA was penalizing companies for polluting the air with coal smoke. There are also unnecessary inefficiencies: New York City has been ordered by the Department of Transportation to build subway ramps and elevators for the handicapped at a cost of $1.5 billion, even though impecunious city fathers contend that it would be cheaper to give the disabled free cab rides for life...
...script and the brisk pace of the direction, the result is a first-class family entertainment. That is to say, it is a rare movie that keeps kids on the edge of their chairs without inducing in their parents an overwhelming desire to escape theirs for a smoke in the lobby...