Word: effluviums
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...suicide games" as Diehl calls them, he and Hannon are about as innocuous as a tandem of sprightly young tarantulas. The two may be roving foci for the stewing frustrations of players whose shots aren't dropping, coaches who have an axe to grind, and a steady verbal effluvium from the stands, but at all costs they try to avoid controversy while on the floor. In short, "if you're constantly in controversy, you're not going to last too long," says Diehl...
...mind. They have always known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether they will be rewarded with a snarl or a civet effluvium in return for the proffered peanut...
...enclosing it like a worm in a fruit." Obsessed with envy, Furber spreads lies about Omensetter and even tries to persuade the townspeople that he has committed murder. In the end the reverend repents his persecution, but too late to preserve his reason, which drowns in a loud orange effluvium of emotion...
...Effluvium is the least amiable excess of which Author Gass is guilty. At his worst he spates obscurities like a jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...
Another first for Texas and the Clan Murchison-a unique manure! Here, in America's Rhineland, our Angus provide us with tons of the stuff. When it is heaped in the barn, no one's nose is offended. When it is spread through the vineyards, the effluvium floats for miles. Perhaps the Murchisons will be luckier in financial maneuvers than in choosing metaphors...