(1) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(2) Like Paul Hollywood's salt and pepper quiff, there's no visible means of support.
(3) Nostalgia has had its niche in pop ever since 70s stars such as Showaddywaddy and the late Les Gray of Mud cheerfully recycled the rhythms and quiffs of the 50s.
(4) By contrast, most bad guys in big summer blockbusters find themselves contending with a tornado of special effects, leaving actors even as brilliant as Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was in Star Trek Into Darkness, with little to do but race around with their quiff blowing in the wind.
(5) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(6) But there were reasons to admire the Everlys other than their vocal harmonies: with their giant quiffs and Hollywood smiles, Phil and Don exuded American cool, while their songs (many written by Nashville husband and wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) mixed sweet ballads like Devoted To You with sly high-school tales ( Poor Jenny ) and teen angst wails such as When Will I Be Loved .
(7) And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.
(8) With his yellow ties and generous quiff, he stands ever ready to slam the unions and moan about Europe.
(9) He’s tall with square shoulders, his hair shaved at the sides with a floppy quiff on top.
(10) In the morning he'd had a Roger McGuinn bowl cut, but at the Haçienda his hair was up, an Elvis quiff.
(11) Ever mindful of his image, he was photographed with a bloodstained bandage swathing his rakish quiff.
(12) They lower her in and her two burly sons (in drainpipes and teddy-boy quiffs) shovel earth on top.
(13) Morrissey's style also caught his eye, as Howarth also wore his hair in a quiff, inspired by David Tennant's Doctor Who, and liked flowery shirts.
(14) He sometimes receives visitors with his jacket off, and, at 54, still wears his hair in a boyish quiff.
(15) To the south-west we can see the cliffs of Moher sporting a quiff of black cloud; to the west is Inis Oírr, the island where we spent the previous night.
(16) I remember going to gay bars in London that Bowie was known to frequent and it gave many of us courage not to hide, to have confidence in ourselves.’ In 1975 Bowie veered off into new territory, exploring his love of Philly soul with the Young Americans album , and introducing a look that has echoed through both gay clubs and soul weekenders ever since: the extravagant quiff or dyed wedge cut, teamed with a tailored shirt and baggy trousers.
(17) "The boy looked at Johnny," she sings, and then a rockabilly nightmare of switchblades and erotic pain unfolds in a glassy stilled imagery of sex and death: Johnny goes down on his knees and all he can see are "horses, horses, horses…" The iconography of this song is reproduced in a 1983 self-portrait in which Mapplethorpe poses in a leather jacket wielding a switchblade with his hair slicked into an ornate meta-rocker quiff.
(18) Composite: Getty But, then again, even the most strait-laced Conservative leaders were once pop-pickers: in his biography of Michael Howard, Michael Crick revealed that Howard sported an Elvis quiff in his youth.
(19) The Stratford Halo, at 43 storeys, is the biggest and boldest, wrapped with dubious purple pinstripes and topped with a jaunty quiff – and hosting a gaudy light show by night.
(20) Impish, irreverent and sporting combed-forward hair with a quiff at the front, the former Cambridge Footlights star, a Methodist minister's son from Kent, seemed to embody the new, impatient generation.
Tobacco
Definition:
(n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
(n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Example Sentences:
(1) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(2) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(3) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(4) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(5) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
(6) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(7) This structure could be constructed in intron 1 of tobacco rps12 gene.
(8) An important stratification factor, however, was related to tobacco usage.
(9) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(10) These regions are also conserved in chloroplast DNA of tobacco.
(11) The policy was effective in reducing perceived environmental tobacco smoke exposure in work areas where smoking was banned but not in nonwork areas where smoking was allowed in designated areas.
(12) The group of tobacco smoking persons showed during rest, loads and in the restorative period more distinct disorders of cardio-vascular system values.
(13) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
(14) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(15) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.
(16) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(17) However, most of these studies are difficult to interpret because they do not correctly take into account associated carcinogens such as tobacco smoke and other occupational carcinogens.
(18) The acute effects of smokeless tobacco (ST) on buccal mucosal transport and barrier function were studied by means of in vivo and in vitro techniques.
(19) The predilection of localization of epidermoid and small cell carcinomas in the upper lobes suggests a possible relationship to tobacco smoke inhalation as these regions have been shown to be more affected by the smoke.
(20) We have isolated an auxin-regulated cDNA, parB, from the early stage of cultured tobacco mesophyll protoplasts.