Word: smelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pictures in those crepuscular moments when Shanghai reveals its private self. Behind the blinding economic razzle-dazzle and throngs of striving entrepreneurs, the city is defined by its intimate sense of neighborhood, what Girard calls its "lived-in-ness." Walk Shanghai's alleyways at night and inhale the smell of braised pork wafting out of a communal kitchen, hear the slap of a shuttlecock struck by a pajama-clad girl, catch a glimpse of a chandelier in a threadbare bedroom-once part of a ballroom in some silk merchant's mansion, now subdivided to house a dozen families...
...smell prevented me from resuming my nap, I half-heartedly picked up the romance novel I’d purchased on the way out, and pretended to read. When all manner of wiping and discarding had ceased, I thought I was home free, until, of course just my luck, “24D” decided he was going to make things up to me by engaging in conversation. Fuck...
...broken water pipes in Adams House created a sewage smell that permeated the dining hall and serving area over the last two weeks, according to residents and dining hall staff. “First it was like the smell of a laundry room with the rubber hoses and stuff like that,” said Adams House general cook Edward P. Childs. “Later it just started getting repugnant, like the nasty B.O. in the gym.” Several students and staff said the smell reminded them of sewage. “It was fetid...
...when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective sense of shame and burden. So much so that South Korea's Ambassador to the U.S., Lee Tae Shik, pledged to fast for 32 days to show his sorrow today. "I can smell a collective sense of guilt," says Lim Jie-Hyun, a history professor at Hangyang University in Seoul. "There is confusion [in Korea] between individual responsibility and national responsibility...
...water I had palmed from a rusty tap in the shower had given me diarrhea. Under a 24-hour strip light, I hadn't slept more than a few minutes at a time. And I stank. So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their smell on the walls, and while I was making my own stink, the walls were also passing theirs onto...