Word: fetid
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...country that could invent the bidet obviously has a penchant for vaguely ludicrous cosmetics, and so it came to pass Friday that the Parisian subway system received the first application of a new perfume. The scent, named Madeleine (after one of the more notoriously fetid stops on the Metro) is to be splashed throughout the subway system over the next few weeks in order to combat the unwholesome odors that have permeated the city's underground since its creation...
...Nicaragua alone, where 3,800 were thought dead, much of the landscape looks as barren as the moon. Starving, sallow-skinned children, many suffering cholera from the fetid waters that destroyed their homes, begged for food on the crumbled, mud-slick roads between Managua and the flooded northern sierras...
...deceit, the President cast himself as the protagonist in Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's 1941 classic about the victim of a totalitarian witch-hunt. Eight months later, in the pages of Kenneth Starr's report to Congress, Clinton finds himself the villain in a much trashier tale, a fetid blend of libido and legalese that reads like Jackie Collins by way of the Congressional Quarterly...
...shows. Let's see...a virus from aliens has been harvested and is about to be spread, by bees and corn oil, across the world--"a plague to end all plagues," whispers kook-savant Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), who spends most of his time hiding in a fetid back alley hoping Mulder will show up. The aliens, you see, were earth's original inhabitants, and they are being tracked by that all-round evilest of government conspiracies, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). We feel ourselves sliding deeper into Art Bell territory--into the all-night radioland...
ARCO and Montana Resources, the pit's custodians, like the idea of mining the fetid lake but say it is not yet economically feasible. A local environmental firm, MSE Technology Applications, is testing everything from microbes and chemicals to membrane strainers to remove the ores but says a workable process could be years off. That's too long to wait, warns Fritz Daily, a former Montana legislator who is concerned about an earthquake fault less than a mile from the pit. "If the water ever discharges, it could destroy the entire valley," he says. A growing number of others, Montana...