Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drinking from the toilet and had cut off her hair. Finally she asked O'Connor to take Elisa away. Convinced the girl's symptoms had existed prior to her contact with Awilda but were now driving her mother over the edge, he rushed to the apartment. "You could smell urine and see she had defecated everywhere," he says. "Her toys were thrown around. There were feces smeared on the refrigerator...
...needed a 24-page passport extension. Some of the visits were quick diplomatic stops, but many were extended stays. "There are very few countries I haven't been to at least once," she says. "You can't cover foreign affairs by watching television; you have to feel it and smell it and talk to people...
...mother answered, smiling quietly and motioning him in from the cold. He entered, proceeding obediently across the hallway in a line of noncommittal greetings and hugs, remembering the smell of home and the dim incandescent lights, the pattern of the wallpaper and the globs of varnish on the wooden bannister. His four older siblings had all arrived home earlier, all with their uncomfortable spouses. He trudged up the stairs and into his room, collapsing onto his high school bed. It smelled stale and abandoned. That night he dreamt of driving a small black convertible on a summer night downtown...
...shambly, incidental pleasures, Mallrats gives one the impression that as Smith ages, he isn't going to get better--just more so--and that he'll crank out more low-rent, easy-on-the-ears comedies. When Brodie walks into the mall, he exclaims, "I love the smell of commerce in the morning!" The joke refers to Apocalypse Now, but the bet here is that Smith does love the odor of deals. A film studio to him is just a giant convenience store where he can showcase his bright, disposable wares...
...have 45 air changes an hour, which is more than double the number of hourly air changes in the past. If you walk into the labs right now, you will not smell chemicals," Kammler says...