Word: odore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constant opening of soda cans or the incessant munching and crunching of Doritos that prove to be the most bothersome. It's not even so much the festering and lingering putrid odor of semi-microwaved food eating away at your brain, just at the moment you're deepest into studying for that final exam worth 75 percent of your grade...
...senses flag. Taste diminishes as the nose loses its sense of smell (odor accounts for about 80% of overall flavor sensation). The loss of taste can lead to lack of appetite and sometimes to serious nutritional deficiencies. Hearing fades, particularly in the high-frequency range, and processing of information slows. Vision begins deteriorating at about 40. The pupil shrinks, reducing the amount of light reaching the retina. An 80-year- old's retina receives only about a sixth of the light that a 20-year-old's does. The lens hardens and clouds. More than half of those...
Reynolds has gone back to basics. He played a policeman on TV's Hawk and Dan August and in the films Hustle and Sharkey's Machine. In Rent-a-Cop, he is Church, a good detective in bad odor because of a fatally botched drug bust. There's a psychopath (James Remar, all hollow-eyed menace) on the loose, and only a chatty tart (Liza Minnelli) to lead Church to the killer. While Minnelli wears earrings the size of headlights and puts way too much spin on every line of dialogue, Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become...
Though no permanent damage was done, many residents still complained of a lingering odor yesterday. "Before it smelled like awful toilet water but now it smells like a sanitized bathroom," said Ohsang Kwon...
...Babbitt bypasses the Savery Hotel, the venerable political hot spot, and stays instead in the spartan Kirkwood, with its scuffed furniture and worn carpets. No luxury suites here. One night, when Hattie Babbitt settled into bed at the Kirkwood, she asked her husband, "Do I smell mildew?" But the odor was not the hotel linens. She laughed. "It was his T shirt...