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...discovered that economic growth rarely takes place without extensive deficit spending by the government, and, as a recent New York Times critique pointed out, it is hard for any country to raise exports when no one else is supposed to be importing. Indeed, the new IMF austerity seems to reek of Northern cynicism: industrial nations want to collect as many overdue loans as possible and then...
...memorial in Washington will be different. It will be installed on the edge of the Mall, not far from the Washington Monument. It will be utterly European. It will reek of a European suffering and evil...
...antidote has yet been found to the bite of the state's most annoying insect, the California Cute-Fly, which gathers in swarms at art schools and among the hills of Marin County. Quaintness, a whiff of sinsemilla, weaknesses of the bone structure, a pervasive reek of the petted ego-such are the main signs of this gnat's attack, coupled with the hermetic babblings which, on that coastal paradise of the half-blown mind, stand in for Imagination...
...masculine game of dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning blond whose well-practised mannerisms reek of reflex criminality: the archetypal detriment to Sally's hope for a clean life...
...building on the distant hill, with its gaping mouth, recalls the hell mouths in Bruegel (it is actually copied from the guardhouse gate at Auschwitz). The figures, lying dead or crawling about in unidentifiable uniforms, reek of anonymity...