Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dear old dad and other hot-blooded types. "Three times my father sell me," she tells Main. "For good money, you know." Despite these aborted forays into wedlock, Maritza has managed to preserve her integrity as well as her virginity. "I never alone before," she confides in her smoke-cured gypsy accents as she and Alex pull into the Main digs. "Gypsy's family, they stick together. I got no place to go now." Main is enchanted. But then, he is apparently not hard to please...
...gray morning after the night before. The evening and the smoke and the friends have dissolved into dim corners, trickled down stairs and slid away over rain-slicked streets. You see the morning in as everything wears off. Time drags. Until you hear music that sounds the way a drifting parachute looks. And it's even better than those records of waves and bird cries at soothing frazzled, fidgety sleepless nerves. The notes echo, ripple, shimmer and flow. The party debris remains. But you're gone: finding out who's playing jazz on this rock'n'rollers floor...
...Conservative, would have got rid of its leader. They would have said "Enough is enough, we can't go on with this," and it would have been done just by people talking to each other in the tearoom or drinking a rather stronger drink in the Members' smoke room or the bars...
When husky-voiced Singer Edie Adams whispered her final "pick one up and smoke it some time" back in 1973 and quit making TV ads for Muriel Cigars, the fire went out of the company's sales. Last week in Manhattan the stogie makers introduced a new Miss Muriel to light up the home screens. She is Susan Anton, 26, a former Miss California who beat out 400 other aspirants for a four-year contract with Consolidated Cigars Corp. "I don't smoke anything; I was told it would stunt my growth," confesses Anton, who stands...
...valley, at Denikulu and Kaymakli, the Byzantines tunnelled down into the soft tufa and constructed underground cities eight levels deep and a mile wide, fit to house 10,000 people, their animals and their stores. The inhabitants cooked and ate communally. Special chimney systems were designed to conceal the smoke; ventilation shafts provided air. The various rooms are all connected by a labyrinthine network of stairs and corridors. These troglodytes wheeled mammoth stones across the entrance and holed themselves up for six months at a time...