Word: soots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank found angels behind cafe counters and operating elevators, jukeboxes our glowing gods of night, and coffins in cars under tarpaulins... "Car shrouded in fancy expensive designed tarpolian (I knew a truckdriver pronounced it "tarpolian") to keep soots of no-soot Malibu from falling on a new simonize job as owner who is a two-dollar-an-hour carpenter snoozes in house with wife and TV, all under palm trees for nothing, in the cemeterial California night.... In Idaho three crosses where the cars crashed," wrote Kerouac, but you must read the rest of his introduction. The pictures are pure...
...backbone of the law will be new air-quality standards to be set by the Environmental Protection Agency. It will specify allowable nationwide levels of such major pollutants as soot and sulfur dioxide. Though states will translate the standards into emission tolerances for individual factories, the EPA can take over such policing on 120 days' notice if states fail to follow through. As an alternative, the EPA may sue polluters directly. In a remarkable expansion of the power of ordinary Americans to combat bureaucratic diffidence, the law also authorizes citizen suits against alleged violators or, for lax enforcement, against...
...first glance, such optimism seems premature. Upper Silesia is still blighted by strip mines and slag heaps. Its rivers remain gutters carrying the wastes of 4,000 factories. The veil of soot and gases is so thick in some areas that only 60% of normal sunshine ever reaches the ground...
...store in Houston is marketing a "home dome" that completely encloses houses and grounds in vinyl. Beneath the dome, which costs $7.50 per square foot, 300 to 1,000 tons of electric air conditioning will maintain an Astrodomic 72° in summer, while the structure seals out smog and soot. For less well-heeled customers, Sakowitz offers a cheaper escape from the noxious fumes: a sequined gas mask...
...intervened again to accelerate the pace of evolution. Since the passage of smoke-control laws in the 1950s, England's landscape has begun to emerge from its layers of soot. The cleaner trees thus provide a lighter-and safer-resting place for any surviving speckled moths...