Word: odore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were pithiest. There is, for instance, 425-pound Big Jelly Catalano, who likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid, Tony the Indian, Joe the Wop, Beppo the Dwarf and a lion with body odor. Yet the book is funny, particularly on the sadistic Tom-and-Jerry cartoon level of violence, because the characters aren't real and nothing is really at stake but a few laughs...
...rises against the sky without any respect for anyone, defying human perception. Look at it: it is only an image, the stark print of a monolith, pasted on blue paper. Touch it-it is mere granite. It makes no noise, has no odor. Even as you shiver in its shadow, you forget it exists...
...Clark showed me a drawerful of feminine deodorant sprays made by competitive companies, including "My Own," "Ambiance," "P. S.," "Busy Body" and "Concern." He pointed out that anxiety over vaginal odor is not peculiar to America. Bidets are common through Europe and a towelette called "Bidex," name and packaging copied from the American product, is now sold it Switzerland and Germany. Also, Youngs Drugs exports Bidette products to Europe...
They're attractive ... intelligent ... desirable ... interesting ... American ... girls. And essentially they are saying "If I have a vaginal odor problem, it's O. K. for you to have a vaginal odor problem, acknowledge it, and do something about it ... " The nearest comparison I could make is the Clairol advertising. Up until that time (Clairol started advertising) the idea of dying your hair was associated with whores and, you know, not-so-nice people. And nice people were afraid to dye their hair and didn't want to be identified with it. They put a woman with a child...
...really don't know," she said after a long pause. "Certainly odor is a part of the way of giving off sexuality and maybe this is of some concern; maybe this is a motivating factor in women-that they don't accept their own sexuality sufficiently and that's why they want to mask the odors identified with it. I mean that's possible. " But Miss Prag pointed out that this is an odor-conscious society and that everyone, not just anxiety-ridden women, wears underarm deodorant...