Word: odorizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smoking is banned in Currier House because the building's ventilation systems transmit odor from one smoker's room into other rooms and hallways throughout the house...
...life revolves around the red line. Each day, I take the T from the Harvard Square stop to Quincy Adams, birthplace of our second president, and a tribute to our sixth. I crowd onto the odor-laden train each morning, jostling for arm space with all the other harried commuters, who treat my arm as if it were an encroachment on their personal space and grudgingly tolerate it. The train pulls out of Harvard Square only after it has nearly amputated some last minute arrival's body part with its unforgiving doors, bursting to the seams with the teeming masses...
...Roswell, N.M. (pop. 49,000), is the birthplace of Demi Moore. It is also home to the nation's largest mozzarella plant. On warm spring nights, visitors deplaning onto the tarmac at the local airport may be struck, in a not necessarily unpleasant way, by the rich, manurelike odor rolling in from the surrounding ranchlands. But none of these things is what Roswell is most famous...
...appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their time." Into this "odor of menace" strolls Blessington's girlfriend, looking for trouble...
...Odor of menace" is an apt description of Stone's fictional atmospherics. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. "The way," the poet is told once the trip has begun, "is to go up the mountain and make it all complete." In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that "this drink...