Word: smokes
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...also an instance of an artist playing air guitar with history--making a strenuous gesture to create the impression that he's summoning a powerful reality, when in fact he's merely toyed with it. All the same, it certainly fits the apocalyptic tenor of this show. When the smoke from all that gunpowder clears, there's still a whiff of brimstone...
...downside: Battling the press is a short-term tactic, not a long-term strategy. You blast away for weeks, the smoke settles...and the press is still there. After Clinton's strong showing Tuesday, the limelight is likely to swing back her way. She won't look as much like an abused underdog, and her coverage will feel less elegiac. Nothing dims the glow of sympathy like success...
...People like blowing smoke,” he said. “It’s a fun thing to do. It’s exotic and foreign, and people like that...
Todd G. Steinbach, sales clerk at Leavitt & Peirce Tobacco, a smoke shop in Harvard Square, cited the taste of hookah as a likely explanation for the perceived harmlessness of hookah smoking...
...Freshman year we used to sit outside John Harvard and smoke sheesha,” Eltayeb said, using another term for hookah. “That’s how a lot of people got to know each other...