Word: putridity
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...Spears was an unhinged superstar unraveling daily in front of a captivated global audience and voracious media scrum. There were hours of aimless driving, underwear-free outings with Paris Hilton, a bizarre romance with a paparazzo, an involuntary psychiatric hold. But after more than a year of belching putrid black smoke, the Britney machine is humming along quite nicely, thank you, and these days it's about the music, not the antics. Did she really shave her head or was that just a bad dream? (See Britney Spears in the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...
...then you come to a place like this, and realize it's a very real situation." Suddenly, Eros sniffs intently and turns inquiringly toward Murase. His trainer rushes forward. This time, it turns out to be nothing. But Eros continues to breathe in the dusty, putrid air, searching for a scent to please his master, just as he was trained all these years...
...Volkswagen Beetle, the symbol of West Germany's economic miracle and rise after World War II. But the Trabi was more a mockery. It had a plastic body and was driven by a two-stroke engine that ran on a cocktail of oil and gasoline that emitted a putrid stench as it rolled with a characteristic clackety-clack along East German roads. (Read about the Beetle in TIME's most important cars of all time...
...YouTube on May 11, the nation has begun to confront the benighted lawlessness that plagues not only Guatemala but most of the rest of Central America too. Younger Guatemalans, organizing protests via social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, have turned out by the thousands to protest their putrid judicial system and festoon Rosenberg's murder scene with banners. "Older people say they haven't seen an awakening like this in 60 years," says Alejandro Quinteros, 26, a cherubic fast-food manager and political novice who helps lead the National Civic Movement. "We're not afraid anymore...
...morbid connotations of half-dead creatures, bloody foam around the mouth, and putrid flesh, it's no coincidence that the zombie walk happened on the most happy day of the year for Christians...