Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quote the Encyclopedia Britannica on Indian Summer: "The haziness of the air, the musty odor and glorious mordant coloring of the leaves, the smell of smoke from rampant fires in the dry woods and the relaxing physiological effect of the warmth following the previous cold snap all contribute to the distinctive and romantic stereotype of Indian Summer that has been cherished by generations of Americans." This is offensive? This is a slur on the Indian people? This shows "sneakiness...
...organizer, observed, "To go in front of an audience that is prepared for entertainment and to talk about politics would cause problems." The brief acknowledgement by a film society leader of the movie's blatantly racist content, presented before the uneventful Friday night showing, was insufficient to dispel the odor of some of the racial myths unabashedly portrayed...
...after a brief but glamorous appearance in the film Airport 1975 and was delighted to provide the details of the regimen that keeps her in shape. Sprouted grains for one thing. "They have plenty of chlorophyll that cleanses the blood and makes the body smell pure. There is no odor to my sweat." After breakfasting on dried and crumbled whole-grain bread kneaded with carrot juice and topped with rice polish, lecithin, yogurt and a tiny ripe banana, Gloria sometimes skips around the house. "I'm a regular hausfrau, but I still need more exercise." Gloria plans...
...take the whole thing too seriously, the profile, written with the intent of discrediting Ellsberg and Boudin in the press, is more than just a little amusing. With a title like "Devil's Advocate" and subheadings to the tune of "The Strange Affinities of Attorney Leonard Boudin" and "The Odor of Espionage" the memorandum sounds very much like one of Hunt's silly spy novels and not at all like a government document...
Even Speiser's hilarious Brucean renderings of a man waking up with an erection and spraying the bathroom walls as he relieves himself and of a groom overwhelmed and reeling at the left-over odor of his own Caelia don't jolt the way they used to. In Bruce's mind the fear of arrest and exposure had mingled with excretory fantasies and the irrational guilt of old-fashioned Jewish toilet training with its terrifying threats--"He made kaka? All right, we'll get a policeman!" So you have to alert your "liberated" psyche against this sense of easy enjoyment...