Word: smell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shared or not, that fundamentalist faith gives Jerry Lee's music, even to a heathen, the unique power of sin. No smart talk or sidestepping for him. This is the devil's music, and Jerry Lee Lewis plays it with the aplomb of a peer. He may smell damnation himself, but that unholy gift of his has surely secured him a place in rock-'n'-roll heaven. Right up there in the dark. At the end of the road...
...stories. Pancake deftly integrates meaning and feeling into physical sensations and images. At one point Colley listens to a real estate agent convincing his mother to sell the farm. Just returned from hunting turtle in one of the creeks on his land. He tells us that the smell of turtle has soaked between his fingers and that "it's the same smell as the pools. "We see that the land and nature of his home have soaked too deeply into his being for him to leave easily...
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Lani Rodriguez '83 said that she "started to smell something like burning plastic when the smoke alarm went off" around 7 p.m. A friend who was visiting Rodriguez pulled the fire alarm and the sprinkler system started up. Both A and B entries of the House were immediately evacuated...
...vent above your head in the ceiling begins to hum. This means the executioner has turned on the fan to suck up the smell of burning flesh. There is little time left. On your right you can see the waisthigh, one-way mirror in the wall. Behind the mirror is the executioner, standing before a gray marble control panel with gauges, switches and a foot-long lever of wood and metal at hip level...