Word: soot
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...only so long. So the lawyers and brokers and secretaries will go back to offices and trading floors and restaurants that are eerily close to the twisted-steel mausoleum. And they will look away whenever they can. They will come home this week with soot on their shoes, the earth and ash and dust of buildings that no longer exist...
...against an otherworldly terrain of rubble and soot, a pedestrian-cluttered Wall Street seemed more like the hub of an authoritarian state than the financial capital of the world...
...NYSE’s Corinthian columns, a line of people waiting for the markets to open presented a unique Wall Street sight: the suited brokers clutche steaming coffees in one hand and cell phones in the other, plotting stock strategy through surgical masks to fend off the soot and smoke that still fogged...
...center of the teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
...angle then another, from below, from above, from the street corners on which I’ve stood and the restaurants at which I’ve eaten. The descriptions of all possible aspects of the disaster, the footage of survivors crouched behind cars and coated in white soot (while the newscaster babbles on about the symbolism of “American Capitalism Under Attack”—a real movie title, isn’t it?), and the endless screaming photos on the front page of each newspaper, photos of my home city swallowed by a cloud...