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...projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as an architectural gem when it was built in 1954 for $117 million, has become a center of vandalism, muggings, dope, sexual perversion, rape and homicide. Stairwells and hallways reek of old garbage and excrement. Recently, elevator repairmen refused to work in the buildings because of repeated sniping incidents. Despite low rents, the project today is 43% vacant. Says the Rev. Buck Jones: "People are moving out because they are scared to death...
Nowhere is the pocho's plight-or potential power-more evident than in the monotonous, sun-scabbed flatlands of Ea,st Los Angeles, where 600,000 Mexican-Americans live. At the confluence of the swooping freeways, the L.A. barrio begins. In tawdry taco joints and rollicking cantinas, the reek of cheap sweet wine competes with the fumes of frying tortillas. The machine-gun patter of slang Spanish is counterpointed by the bellow of lurid hot-rods driven by tattooed pachucos. The occasional appearance of a neatly turned-out Agringado (a Mexican-American who has adapted to Anglo styles) clashes...
...Fugs positively reek of "redeeming social importance." While their lyrics can be brutally sharp--"Kill for Peace" is a savage attack on the Vietnam war--their message is one of love. Writes Ginsberg, the funniest of the hippie saints, "Birchites are lacklove, Republicans and Democrats too are lacklove, Communists lack love, Narco, fuzz and White South Governors lack love. I say make love to them. They need it most. We all have to be funny saints to survive...
...such synthetic stimulants as Methedrine, Dexedrine and Benzedrine, which are known collectively as "speed." Gaudily painted trucks and buses thread with somnambulatory leisure through The Haight-Ashbury's sunny streets like evocations of an acid dream; the sickly scent of incense fills the air to mask the reek of marijuana...
Despite last week's switch to glittering new quarters, Rudel insists that he is not switching his basic aim "to reinstate a sense of adventure in the public." Opera, he says, must not reek of the museum...