Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiction, if fact is in short supply (Washington politics has been honored with its own seamy TV soap opera); and some vengeful pols, mostly Republicans who suffered for years through the aftermath of Watergate and delight in the chance to do a little Woodward-Bernsteining themselves, now that they smell a smoking Democratic...
Despite omens so favorable that overconfidence seemed to be the G.O.P.'s lone hazard, the spirit of Dallas was surprisingly feisty, even belligerent. Speaker after speaker sharply berated the Democrats, eliciting war cries and hoots from a convention that seemed to smell blood. The best-received barbs, and the constant efforts to link Walter Mondale to the Carter presidency, reflected a conservative ideology that relished its moment of triumph within the party. In notable contrast to his acceptance speech in Detroit four years ago, Reagan endorsed the tendentious tone with an unusually sharp attack of his own. He called...
...atmosphere at the WoodenBoat School is relaxed. Students spend their after-class hours playing softball and drinking enough beer to float a schooner. But before that, they put in solid workdays in a shop redolent with the smell of fresh-cut cedar. Students pick up their tools by 8 each morning and, except for an hour-long lunch break, do not put them away until after 4 each afternoon. No one complains about the hours. "I love it; it gives me such a sense of satisfaction," says Cullen. "When I fitted my first plank, I felt like singing the Marseillaise...
Most of the classical revivals at the National smell just as strongly of the lamp. Both Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd lie open and inert on the stage, as if they were exams to be passed and not theatrical experiences to be shared. Only Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's free adaptation of a play Chekhov wrote when he was still a student, strikes vital sparks, and this because Frayn treats the text as an organism that can flower with care and pruning. At 21, Chekhov was already halfway toward being...
Will it help to explain that his nickname was Spider? Spider Nissen. Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...