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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps I exaggerate. Anyway, we know the overt man bashing of recent years has now refined itself into a certain atmospheric snideness -- has settled down to a vague male aversion, as if masculinity were a bad smell in the room. Man bashing is dispensed, so to speak, in aerosol spray (Man-Disss), which covers the male's nasty essence in a fine mist of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...emerged from their newly constructed, modern outhouse. She chuckled. "You know, when your father visited us ten years ago, and we still had to use the public toilets, he would wait all day before going. He made your uncle take him. He was so afraid of the smell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Gang of Twelve | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...different from listening to a recording as hearing someone recount a meal is from actually eating it. You need to be there to smell the smoke thick in the air, to hear the guy behind you try to pick up the waitress, to watch the leader's style, to witness the musicians interactions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Need to Be There to See the Sweat | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...primary reason that we haven't returned toour rooms is the overpowering smoke smell," saidHarold Burstein, a house tutor who has beendisplaced...

Author: By Chris Terrio, | Title: Blaze in Lowell Damages Room | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...lost the other after it was brutally broken in a soccer game. When Billy came home from the saloons at night to the family's Brooklyn apartment, he would remove his artificial leg along with his trousers. Pete remembers them hanging over a chair in the bedroom and the smell of vomit. He had his first fight when a boy named Brother Foppiano taunted in a singsong, "Your old man's an Irish drunk! Your old man's an Irish drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taut Wire of Childhood Memory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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