Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House, the melancholic hero-obviously speaking for the author-decides that Euripides spent his last years in a cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...
...keeps bumping into people who have unknowingly heard from him before; perhaps his anonymous letters have saturated the city. Some, like a colleague who had once received a "friendly" warning about his body odor, learn of Brown's intercession in their lives as the day proceeds. Instead of angering them, this knowledge only distracts them from their own fantasies. In fact, they too would do what Brown does if they dared - or cared enough. Exposed to the same public madness, the characters have come to share a repertory of private images and symbols. Most of ten these involve violence...
...throws open the kitchenette window, wanting the sour smell of greens and pork to sail away on a twilight breeze. Home. Home is. No complete sentence forms itself in her irritated mind. Her mind itching in the heat and odor of close living. Home is here, here is home; and it stinks. She is alone, and her life is somewhere else...
...closet, or rummage in the chest of drawers, she slips on a pair of jeans and a dirty undershirt that are lying on the floor. They belong to the sleeping, snuffling unaware man. They fit her body like his embrace. They are comfortable and familiar, holding her inside their odor of male sweat and cologne. She walks to the bed and looks at him again, smelling the shirt. Yes, it is his shirt. But who is he? She feels somehow sorry to be leaving him, and with her clothes stuffed in his closet...
...Conformist and in anticipation of the brouhaha over Last Tango in Paris (TIME cover, Jan. 22). Perhaps Tango may not SO much sweep up The Spider's Stratagem in its wake as swamp it. The Spider's Stratagem boasts no superstars in the cast, no odor of brimstone and no heavy hype. It should not need them. Less exotic than The Conformist or Tango, certainly more subtle and contained. The Spider's Strata gem is Bertolucci's best movie...