Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points. For one thing, it's directed by Ridley Scott, who also directed the widely respected Blade Runner. Scott takes obvious pleasure in filming the steamy, neon sprawl of Tokyo at night. He punctuates several scenes with beautiful overhead shots of the entire city wreathed in fog and factory smoke...
...wary of them. As the year goes by, sporadic reports of suicide attempts, though hushed up by a protective administration, make the rounds of student gossip. The drug abuse taking place you can observe yourself. Of course, I'm not talking about alcoholism or bong-hitters who could smoke Bob Marley under a table. It's the coke and ecstasy here that are really frightening...
...skies over western Brazil will soon be dark both day and night. Dark from - the smoke of thousands of fires, as farmers and cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon. Unusually heavy rains have slowed down the burning this year, but the dry season could come at any time, and then the fires will reach a peak. Last year the smoke grew so thick that Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondonia, was forced to close its airport for days...
That's what Quincy House residents wondered on Monday, after an overloaded washing machine began to smoke and then set off a fire alarm...
Enos said a motor inside the washing machine had burned out, causing a belt attached to the motor to smoke...