Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN LYDON already has his special place in the rock and roll pantheon. As Johnny Rotten (a stage name he now disdains), he fronted the quintessential punk rock band, the now defunct Sex Pistols, and wrote most of the songs on what is arguably the greatest debut album ever, Never Mind the Bollocks. The obvious problem for an artist meeting such staggering early success is what to do next; Lydon's anxious quest for originality, for a break with his "public image," has resulted in Public Image Ltd., for the most part a hopelessly jejune effort that might leave...
...student who asked not to be identified compared the odor to rotten eggs, adding that in his hallway the smell reached its peak on Sunday...
...Citibank has been installing floor-to-ceiling Plexiglas "bandit barriers" between tellers and customers. Banks are also using sophisticated detector devices to increase the robber's risk of being caught. Among them: scented capsules wrapped inside rolls of bills, which, when squeezed, release the strong identifying odor of rotten eggs, and dye packs inserted in stacks of bills, which spew out smoke that stains everything it touches bright crimson. A few bankers' groups offer rewards for tips leading to the arrest and indictment of robbers. The Washington Bankers Association has a payoff program that helped indict eight thieves...
...foul smell in the house, "like dead rats." Gacy's ex-wife admits, "I think now, if there were murders, some must have taken place when I was in that house." Martin Zielinski, a friend, recalls being puzzled when Gacy once told him, "I do a lot of rotten, horrible things, but I do a lot of good things...
...more strongly. Minutes after telling a Boston Globe reporter that the rules were unnecessary, that she thought three months was too severe a penalty in light of the fact that curfews are broken all the time, and that she thought the way the AAU handled the whole thing was "rotten," Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead told members of the press that "I'm not supposed to talk about that at all," under orders from her coach...