Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center grew out of two older observatories, few there spend much time looking through telescopes. Most work at desks in their own offices, surrounded by references, handbooks, or computer printouts. At first inspection, the center seems like the headquarters of some old-boy-dominated corporation. The smell of pipe smoke wafts down many halls. Most of the women in the building work as secretaries or receptionists for male scientist-administrators. They keep the files in order and the coffee warm while the scientist-administrators talk on the phone and move purposefully between offices, checking on the progress of the scientists...
Flash fires, dense smoke and a series of explosions wracked the stricken craft. Since the Clipper had been turning to its left, passengers on the right side had little chance. Unlike most air crashes, those seated up front were the lucky ones this time. For many, going first class was worth their life...
...chartered out of Amsterdam and carrying a reported 249 people, was preparing to take off. The KLM captain gave his jet engines full power and roared down the runway-just as the Pan Am 747 taxied across his path. The two planes collided broadside. Flames and smoke towered into the sky. Sirens screamed. Ambulances and residents of Tenerife rushed to the crash scene to help. There was little they could do. As the grim count went on, at least 514 were feared dead-by far the worst disaster in aviation history...
...with a dull blood red, Ayrton gives the soldiers' disordered flights a suggestive significance beyond the mere chronicling of events. And by frequently isolating the characters at opposite ends of the stages, Ayrton lends to the few joint tableaux an emotional compression that continues to ring long after the smoke of the battles has disappeared...
Sleeping Beauty. Russlan, based on a Pushkin poem, begins in the palace of the Prince of Kiev, where the wedding of the knight Russlan and the princess Ludmilla is about to be celebrated. In a pouf of smoke, Ludmilla is abducted by the wicked dwarf Tchernomor. The rest of the opera concerns Russlan's travails in trying to find her ahead of two other suitors; the prince has promised Ludmilla to the first man who can rescue her. A kind of Russian Siegfried, Russlan receives a magic sword from that singing head but in the end requires a magic...