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  • Whether it's a subconscious exorcism of post-war anxieties or a testament to the nitrous-oxide hyperdrive of contemporary Japan, the film makes you giddy with its cotton-candy color schemes and uncanny rumpus.

    Screening With Pleasure Steve Dollar 2010

  • The recent development of low-sulfur diesel fuel and exhaust systems has cut nitrous-oxide emissions to levels acceptable even to California, creating a 50-state diesel market for the first time in decades.

    Diesel Picks Up Speed 2010

  • Add the nitrous-oxide, high-pitched voices of trilling Munchkins to the sound track, and I was in heaven.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • It's a delicate little trick, that flick -- you either miss the sleight of hand and get sucked in, or you laugh when Criss Angel makes the fat tourist disappear under the tablecloth, eventually spiralling down into a nitrous-oxide like paroxysm every time your buddy waggles his hands and stage-whispers "MIND FREEEEEEEAAAAAK!"

    Archive 2008-01-06 Rogers 2008

  • It's a delicate little trick, that flick -- you either miss the sleight of hand and get sucked in, or you laugh when Criss Angel makes the fat tourist disappear under the tablecloth, eventually spiralling down into a nitrous-oxide like paroxysm every time your buddy waggles his hands and stage-whispers "MIND FREEEEEEEAAAAAK!"

    El Orfanato Rogers 2008

  • There are two types of nitrous-oxide systems available for purchase: the wet system and the dry system.

    Power Up Your 4x4 2006

  • A Good Investment The advent of credit sales under the U.N. program in 2004 made nitrous-oxide abatement lucrative.

    French Firm Cashes In 2008

  • But some tuners, for street-cred points, pack their trunks with nitrous-oxide systems, a.k.a. "NOS," which deliver a turbo boost at the flip of a switch.

    I Love My Car 2007

  • Mr. Gibbon's daughter was found passed out in another bedroom-along with seven hard-core porn magazines, several spent nitrous-oxide containers and rave beads personalized with the name "Dale" on them, police said.

    You've Got Friends: Why Mark Green Can I.M. AOL 2001

  • She wondered fleetingly if there was a leaking nitrous-oxide tank in here somewhere.

    The Pull of the Moon Graham, Darlene 1999

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