Word: odor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dreary as the Pacific Northwest coast around which his tales are spun, Byers' short stories inventively explore the domains of psychology and interpersonal relationships through the minds of his chief actors. The briny odor of Seattle air clings damply to the pages of the book, with Byers' distinct imagery painting vivid arenas for his divorced women, widowed men and pubescent and imaginative children to perform...
...similar tale seemed to unfold in Jones' home in Lexington, Ky. When police tried to serve a warrant from a 15-year-old weapons conviction on her husband Bob Jones, he barricaded the couple inside their house and threatened that they would kill themselves. Three hours later, after the odor of natural gas filled the street, police, fearing an explosion, rushed the front door. They reached the 48-year-old author safely, but Bob, 51, killed himself by grabbing a butcher knife and plunging it into his throat...
...Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall has given more than their due to some indelible movie creatures. The names Frank Burns (MASH), Tom Hagen (The Godfather), Lieut. Colonel Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), Bull Meechum (The Great Santini), Mac Sledge (Tender Mercies) and Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove) summon sharp, overlapping impressions. The odor of anachronism hangs on most of these characters; they are uneasy with and suspicious of the modern world. While everyone else has gone slack and disorderly, they mulishly hew to an old or private code they dare not question. They alone remain semper...
...assailant reportedly had "a strong odor of alcohol on his person...
...quite smell the "apathy in the air" noticed by your staff reporter when I see more than 100 students at a Thursday night debate for those who would represent on the Undergraduate Council. The odor that does offend is that of slighting the students who made the effort to be involved and informed by writing the presence of more than half of them out of existence, thereby perhaps exacerbating the problem of any apathy in the population that reads this newspaper...