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Conditions are harsh but not inhumane. There is enough water for drinking, occasional showers and laundering each prisoner's army-issue shirt and pants. Everyone receives one bar of soap a month. The food is army rations -- filling but hardly appetizing. The primitive latrines reek; rats, scorpions and mosquitoes are ever on the prowl...
...reporter, dismisses most travel writing as "dull and antiseptic" and describes his entry as the equivalent of a "bunch of friends at a dinner table swapping really good travel tales." The inaugural issue has more ads for Jeeps than jewels, and few ads of any kind that do not reek of adventure and natural fibers...
Bubble Text: Yea! A perfect time to say something with a thick affected enthusiasm that will reek of artifice! Tee Hee, I have no shame...
Nowhere is the malaise of American service more obvious than in the airline business. Cabin attendants often stand by unconcerned, aloof and bored, while old folks and children struggle with their bags. Untended airplane toilets reek. Every flight seems to be late and/or overcrowded...
PARADOXICALLY, IT IS the very insistence of Barthes' manner that fails to satisfy us. His writing continually points to itself, to its own idiolect, through devices which by now reek of affectation...