Word: waft
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...described plans to turn the dinning hall into a winter wonderland by erecting a life-size gingerbread house in the foyer, putting up theater sets depicting a forest along the walls, and using air fresheners to waft the scent of pine needles throughout the room...
...contemporary poetry. Undetachable because his songs, usually integrated tightly into the plot line, often lose resonance on their own. It's no accident that Sondheim has originated only one tune--Send in the Clowns--that can be sure of raising a roar of recognition when its opening bars waft through any cocktail lounge in the country...
Scribble, the narrator, and his gang of no-goods are seriously messing with "vurt," or virtual reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
...jazz tunes, the sequined sprites taking to the air. The glamour event of the Winter Olympics, the women's figure-skating competition, always the grand finale, has proved the durable stuff of fantasy. Thousands of little girls would like to catch the sparkle from those glittering beads and waft away to the Olympics too. Their elders say simply that they like to watch the sport because it looks both artful and effortless, like flight...
...Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m.,Soren sits in the seats of the Astrodome'sdesignated Radio TV area, high above theconvention floor. Powerful electric fans blow coolair into the shadowy seating section. Cheers fromthe floor session--eerily distant--waft past thesilvery rafters. A few feet ahead, bright lightsfocus on a row of stand-up spaces, where cameracrews from MTV, FNN, Comedy Central and othernetworks prepare to film their reporters...