Word: odorants
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...Mattresses spread on floors in hallways and next to urinals. . .food often infested with insects . . . many toilets will not flush and are overflowing . . . overpowering odor . .. exposed wiring poses a constant danger . . . inadequately heated and ventilated . . . rampant violence and jungle atmosphere .. . wholly unfit for human habitation...
...ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves imperceptible to the human eye. Any colors that are perceptible are gathered here in a great rainbow of a book for collectors of butterflies, books, or examples of classic nature photography...
...nothing so radical as that. It's simply that for the past few weeks, there's been a terrible odor in the air, a stench so putrifying that if you dare to inhale, you may not live to regret...
...first glance, Swept Away seems to bear a sexist message. Its protagonists are conventional sexual stereotypes. Raffaella (played by Mariangela Melata) is a rich capitalist bitch vacationing on a chartered yacht, most in her element when berating the deckhand who brings her iced coffee for the offensive odor of his sweaty shirt; Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) is the long-suffering deckhand, devoted equally to the Communist Party and to machismo. The plot is equally classic: shipwrecked together on a beautiful mediterranean isle, the two characters reverse roles entirely. Proletarian Gennarino humiliates bourgeois Rafaella sadistically, avenging class oppression and affronts...
...liquor, is capable of causing birth defects in chicks and rats. Studies of the fetuses of alcoholic mothers also reveal that ethanol easily crosses the placenta from mother to child. Smith reports that the amniotic fluid that had surrounded one of the babies he examined had a definite odor of ethanol. A second baby born to an alcoholic mother emerged from the womb with the smell of ethanol on his breath. A third was in even worse shape. At birth, his blood contained an ethanol level of 150 milligrams per 100 milliliters. An adult with the same alcohol level...