Word: smokes
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...neighborhood, jammed with gem shops and throngs of small-time brokers showing their packets in the street. "Did you notice I took off my jewelry?" she says, smiling. "They copy." How to describe the chaos?with monkeys swinging in and out of dilapidated, baroque façades, sugarcane presses spewing smoke, and dozens of men (there are very few women in sight) pursuing De Taillac. "Hallooo, halloo. You buy emeralds. You want Indian rubies?" they cry, tugging at her clothes, and when she stops to look over a handful of lemon quartz, she causes a traffic...
...first, Mansfield’s breathy, soft words did not set off any alarms about sexism or homophobia. They actually seemed progressive; Mansfield was shifting America’s idolatry of “manly” qualities such as intoxication, cigarette smoke, and muscular physiques to assertiveness and confidence...
...Dolly Parton was the night?s minimalist. The kitschy country legend belted out her best song bid, Transamerica?s Travelin? Thru, without the aid of the slow-motion dancers, smoke machines and elaborate sets that turned listenable tunes from Crash and Hustle & Flow into cringe-worthy performance...
...nicer ones. Opened in June 2004 with a capacity of 450, Bronzefield was designed specifically for women. That means brightly-painted walls, Matisse prints hanging around the place and a row of potted trees in the main hall. But no amount of magnolia yellow can cover the stale smoke in the air, or the hollow echo as voices bounce off concrete bricks, or the cold clunk of heavy keys in steel doors. "You only see us laughing and playing around, but this is an awful place," says Bronwen, 34, in on pickpocketing charges and playing Chicago's prosecutor and detective...
TiVo and DVR Obsessive fans use TiVo and other such devices to examine the show in slo-mo, frame by frame. Like conspiracy buffs poring over grassy-knoll photos, they have found figures lurking in mysterious smoke and elsewhere...