Word: pungents
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...Sweet & Pungent. Any less stringent reform, O'Brien argued, could only be "painful and difficult" because of the "restrictive jungle of legislation and custom that has grown up around the Post Office Department." If the telephone system were run as the mails are, he said, "the carrier pigeon business would still have a great future." In view of the postal service's snowballing problems (TIME, Dec. 30), the idea of a quasiindependent agency similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority offers some compelling advantages...
Congress has long relied on the postal service as a tub of sweet-and-pungent pork. Instead of using the patronage system, which has hurt morale and impeded efficiency, the corporation could promote on merit. Another major problem has been the Post Office's archaic technical facilities; with construction programs pressured on one side by budget vagaries and on the other by congressional logrolling, it has tended to be more interested in concrete than com puters-though even its buildings are inadequate. The agency envisioned...
...nation, but he remains a man without friends. Morrison wants passionately the pastoral simplicity he sees in the Lani, but it is almost his undoing when he learns the hard way that syphilis is endemic among the bush people. Becker has filled his story with lush scenery and pungent characters and built it as solidly as Morrison's bridge...
Incense has become a smell celebre in the L.A. area: Loyola University now fines students who burn it in dormitories; and at a West Los Angeles high school, a girl who lit some in the ladies' room was sent to the fire chief to be lectured. Yet the pungent odor is likely to linger on; legend has it that it masks the fumes of marijuana...
Lindner is a pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...