Word: mildew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suitors to a fight to the death. All hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses to follow one of the suitors' accomplices in search of weapons in Odysseus' storeroom. Melanthius emerges "one hand clutching a crested helmet, the other/ an ample old buckler blotched with mildew/ the shield Laertes bore as a young soldier once...
...hope the new cosmetics [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 16] smell right, especially Mildew, Plague and Gangrene. Yet I wonder how the cosmetic industry missed Dirty Diaper, Rotting Fish and Sewage? DAVID F. SIEMENS JR. Los Angeles...
...Wednesday morning, and it's raining in Baltimore. Pouring; the sky seems to have opened up and dropped a river straight onto the city. Inside, the coffee percolates, black and aromatic in the suspended slow time that is found only on weekday mornings. The room just hints at mildew, in its subterranean position, halfway below the street of row houses...
Shattered Roach Frostbite Asphyxia Bruise Plague Mildew...
...most of the time, thus bequeathing a nightmare to museum conservators. Only the actual process of painting, of resolving the image and getting it to stand alone in its own space, mattered to him, and after that was done he would often leave the picture to be attacked by mildew or chewed by rats...