Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With its low-key atmosphere and friendly management, this bowling complex has been known to attract many local TV luminaries and professional sports celebrities who come to throw back a few paper cups of beer in the smoke-filled lounge. However, owner/manager, Joe Martignetti understands his patrons' desire for privacy and keeps this privileged information under wraps. With so much fan fare surrounding the renaissance of this sport, it is only a matter of time before a Crimson clad team takes to those polished wooden floors...
...bumpers of the cars crowding the waiting ramp, visitors cross a barren patch of dirt to get to the bleachers. Pot-bellied silhouettes with gleaming headphones and walkie-talkies loom ominously from the dark hulk of a conning tower, floodlights throw stark shadows, and arching billows of steam and smoke uncoil overhead. It's only too easy to imagine being picked off from above by a sniper...
...hustle and bustle of latecomers and the monotone of the announcer calling out "B-9, B-9." Cans of Moxie, beanie babies and glow-in-the-dark troll dolls crowd the long brown folding tables that fill the yellowing walls of the church cafeteria. The scents of stale cigarette smoke and Aqua Net periodically waft into the crowded room as peddlers in blue aprons circulate selling instant Lotto cards. All eyes gaze up at the main stage where numbers dance around the monstrous Bingo Board. The hypnotizing pop of the gyrating bingo balls is only broken by the clickity-clack...
...decided to introduce evidence of other philandering presidents into an impeachment inquiry -- interesting, perhaps even mitigating, but ultimately irrelevant. Microsoft's attorneys would like to throw the spotlight on equally dubious business practices elsewhere in the software industry, and this is by no means their last attempt. But this smoking gun, at least, is simply blowing smoke...
...Apple Farm smells of wood smoke, manure and freshly-pressed apples. Families and the occasional college student traipse from farm to orchard clutching eight-foot apple pickers...