Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students often use model-airplane glue in construction work in art classes. We have always found the pungent smell distasteful. Now I am afraid that your article has planted the seed of something that we may be unable to control...
Freud is not mocked. Next morning, on the subway, the smell and pressure of flesh make her sick with disgust. Dread like suppuration oozes from the deep, unmedicated wound in her mind. She sinks into fevered apathy, and one day in a daze almost jumps off-does it always have to be a bridge? Anyway, a big dumb slob of a grease monkey (Ralph Meeker) grabs her just in time...
...being completely dominant, has no significant enemies among other animals." Considering the enemies we have among ourselves, I'd rather be a skunk. The skunk has only the great horned owl to worry about. Me-I've got Russia. Wouldn't you rather be a skunk-smell...
This is a dead city, a battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants deserted. Hour after hour, day and night, the tomblike hush is broken only by the distant crump of exploding mortar shells, the whoom of bazookas, the crack of anti-aircraft cannon, and the short, chattering bursts of machine guns...
...Purves, a painter who is now almost forgotten. Purves insisted that the ear and the nose, and not the eye alone, were important to the artist, so he would bundle his students off to Klein's department store or the Fulton fish market "to paint things we could smell." Ruth hated it; she wanted to be a fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression of fear that in an instant turned Ruth Gikow from aspiring commercial artist to aspiring fine artist. The new goal was elusive. She turned...