Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Risk is also a carefully composed work of fiction. From its first lines ("There is a wasp in the kitchen. Drawn by the smell of apricot jam, lazy from the morning's heat, the wasp hovers above the children"), Hoffman establishes a rhythm of inevitability. She sketches a bosky world in Massachusetts, populates it with wholesome families and engaging eccentrics. One young woman with modest paranormal powers seems like a character prewired for film directors who might want to plug in an occult package. But in the book she represents a sensitivity to mysteries of life and death that Amanda...
...cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before the noses of people is to go to them directly." For a person who receives several such magazines in the home or office simultaneously, the effect can be overpowering. "What is that smell, Janet...
Perfume is just the beginning. Rolls-Royce has run an ad in Architectural Digest that lets readers smell the leathery Rolls interiors. Calls to the company increased fourfold the month after the ad appeared. Readers could also breathe deeply of DeKuyper's Original Peachtree Schnapps or scratch and catch a whiff of Ralston Purina's dog food Butcher's Blend. McCormick & Co. Inc. of Hunt Valley, Md., has put out its annual report on sales of its spices. The financial statements smelled of buttered cinnamon...
...gardeners, at the outset, seem to think that their new passion is profoundly good for them and that the world would be not just a prettier but a healthier and better place if more people joined them in the out-of-doors. There is some theory to this: the smell of basil was long thought to strengthen the heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very...
That someone is Rico, a drug lord from the jungles of Colombia. Rico speaks in a heavy accent and lusts for revenge and power. He dresses in silk suits and has a taste--or a smell--for cocaine...