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Word: smell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because we have imagined each other's existence, our dreams running back and forth along a cable from age to age. Hold this paper to the light. It is a mirror, a delusion, a fact in the brief continuous mystery we share. Do you see starlight? So do we. Smell the fire? We do too. Draw close. Let us tell each other a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...time lawyers smell big fees in the coming legal battles. Democrats taste new power and are in an uncharacteristic season of teeth-gritting, determined self-control so that they don't blow their main chance by allowing instant hysteria to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Not Since John Dean Testified . . . | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...rest of the time we are left in no doubt about anything. The churchmen are saintly in their lack of guile; the Indians are all joyous children, born to be victimized; the settlers are political schemers and oppressive brutes. You can smell the concluding massacre coming for hours. The film's story may be historically true, and it may provide an apt analogue of current conditions in many parts of the Third World. But one suspects liberal show biz, carried away by its high-mindedness, of bending history to its own sanctimonious purposes. Dramatically too The Mission is a drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up the Creek the Mission | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Amanda R. Guest '87 received funding to mount flowers in Harvard Yard trees on the first day of spring. "Huge nets covered with flowers will look like tapestries," Guest said. "People can take the flowers, smell the flowers, see the flowers. The simplicity of it is what I like...

Author: By Karen W. Levy, | Title: Arts Office Hands Out Awards | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...smell of corn carried...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Taking Refuge in Cambridge | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

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