Word: odore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effortlessly concocting the most popular fragrances in Paris is mere child's play for Grenouille, whose ultimate goal is to reproduce that "sweaty-oily, sour-cheesy, quite richly repulsive" odor that is human scent. Although Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is the greatest "smeller" in all the world, he has no body smell...
Lyolya was a scruffy little fellow with a ragged beard who talked in conspiratorial whispers, exhaling a fetid odor of garlic, vodka and bad Soviet tobacco. He told Westerners he had been a leader of the Komsomol, the Communist youth group, at a higher-education institute but was expelled from the organization and the school when he spoke out against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was Jewish and had applied to emigrate, he said, but his parents were influential party members who opposed his departure and blocked his exit visa. He always wore a shabby old U.S. Army fatigue...
...villagers who haltingly recounted the tale of the poisonous cloud. Sometime between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Aug. 21, families were finishing their evening meal and settling down for the night when the volcanic lake bed erupted. Some villagers remembered hearing a distant sound. Then a strange odor permeated their huts. "It was like burned gunpowder," suggested one survivor. Another likened it to "eggs, bad eggs." When villagers began to feel dizzy, panic set in. People who were not killed immediately fled into the dirt streets. Many were later found in the bush, their hands vainly clasped over their...
...considerable physical presence and selfighteousness. It was he who accused Fiedler of offering to pay off much of his campaign debt if he would drop out of the race. Fiedler was indicted on the charge, but a judge dismissed the indictment for lack of evidence. Still, an odor of vague notoriety has clung to Fiedler's campaign --and Davis...
...customary in a Le Carre novel, the odor of moral fatigue and middle-age burnout cling to every page. But Magnus' betrayals also smell of the cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing...