Word: odore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least no female member of the human species looks as stunningly beautiful as Elle does on the pages of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In real life, of course, Elle sweats, peels, breaks out, belches, gives off odor and blows her nose. She gets split ends, skin blemishes, bags under her eyes, food between her teeth and hair on her legs. She does not always smile radiantly...
...odor is strongest in intellectual circles. The party expulsions left many academics, artists and writers wondering if China's intellectuals had once again been misled. In 1956 Mao launched the Hundred Flowers campaign, which invited criticism of party policies. The program took its name from the ancient Chinese slogan, "Let a hundred flowers bloom, and a hundred schools of thought contend." Those who dared to speak, however, became the targets of official wrath once the government line turned conservative. Chinese intellectuals fear they may again have been encouraged to stick out their necks, only to find that their heads will...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary of the French Occupation, the novel's barrage of impressions and opinions assaults, even implicates, the reader. Derisive voices chant an anti-Vichy song. A housewife prepares makeshift tea out of water and carrot tops. The odor of filth rises from the streets. Meanwhile, the heated voices of a cautious bourgeois and a young radical debate questions that offer no moral answers...
...after he lost his job as a security guard last July and then had to leave his apartment after a dispute with his roommate. "When I first got to the shelter," he said, "I wondered what I had gotten into. I had never been in anything like this -- the odor, the dirt, people all over the floor. Then I realized I had no choice." Pride prevents him from telling his mother in South Carolina about his situation. "I'm going to get back on my feet first." Rachel Hanson, 43, was a housewife in Anaheim, Calif., when her marriage...
...right if you wish to fester in despair over homework assignments, but not in public. Complaining about work is a lethal pollutant in the Harvard atmosphere. The heinous odor seeps in every crack and crevice of the Harvard ambience, suffocating the unwitting undergraduates who dare to take enough time away from their work to breathe...