Word: reeked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even more disturbing than returning to Harvard after a year off and finding 60 per cent of the Freshmen proclaimed pre-med majors and the Young Republicans politically prominent, is returning to the stadium to hear the inanity of a once-clever band. Do they reek of censorship or stupidity? Anyone who slept through the first half of the BU game on Saturday must surely have recoiled upon awaking to the half-baked family jokes and TV tunes of our once-distinguished family of musicians. Cut the shit, band or find a new home! We remember when! Bob O'Brien...
...shoot her uncle. (Paul had predicted it, so how could it be otherwise?) But both writers love her anyway. I don't The poor girl from a big rural family at one time might have move some people to tears (not me, however) but at this point the images reek of pulling at the heartstrings. The straight-on camera angles with which she is photographed are visually insulting and emotionally unconvincing...
...freeway center strips, backyards and outlying fields, hoping to raise a subsistence crop. London's offices are dark, its docks deserted. In the farm lands of the Ukraine, abandoned tractors litter the fields: there is no fuel for them. The waters of the Rhine, Nile and Yellow rivers reek with pollutants...
...spewing them forth in a dizzying variety; hearts, flowers, butterflies and a rainbow (usually worn across the hips) are popular. So are noncom stripes, Viet Nam insignia and Disney characters. There are metal studs and leather scraps, attached when and where the spirit dictates. There are even patches that reek (for a few weeks, anyway) of fresh fruit scents, while still others blazon credos: NOT TO DECIDE is TO DECIDE, for example...
Those who manage to escape could be models for Goya's Disasters of War. The lucky ones get into already overfilled tent camps that reek of caustic soda disinfectant and human excrement, and are ankle deep in filthy water from the first monsoons. Most huddle under trees or bushes trying to avoid the heavy rains. Some find cramped quarters on the verandas of now closed schoolhouses. Others near Calcutta have found large open drainpipes to live in. Around them is always the stench of garbage, polluted water, sickness and death...