They have set fire to a NEW GENRE along with whatever judges-table debris (L.A. Reid's soul, Nicole's week 7 weave) was used as kindling for last night's Smoke Monster haze.

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Through a haze of smoke rings, she says she wants to study.

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It's hard to imagine many famous French faces without a haze of cigarette smoke - (unintelligible) Belmondo, Bardot, Sartre and Jeanne Moreau, holding their cigarette - French word by the way - aloft and pursed in your lips to make the tip of the cigarette smolder.

NPR: A Tradition Ends in French Cafes

Sitting now on lawns, amid well-tended flowerbeds and chattering picnickers, it is hard to imagine the British Army swarming onto this plain to attack the French, the smoke of gunfire forming a thick haze among the trees, the slashing of bayonets, and the screaming of the wounded.

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It happened in a haze of champagne bubbles and cigar smoke.

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