Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a pumpkin. The stagehands keep it filled with real junk food - Oreos, Lorna Doones, the kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell. We'd say, 'Oh, wow!' then put the lid back on. So that's what I did. I took a sniff, put the lid back on and had a good nostalgic...
...Romping. Lester's film has all this and more-sophisticated satire, opulent costumes, crashing swordplay, and a feast of historical fact-noblemen sniff clove-studded oranges as they walk through grimily Hogarthian streets; the King plays chess on a lawn-drawn board, with the palace dogs his four-footed chess pieces. Within this lovingly recreated world, Lester's musketeers are off and romping through an audacious barrage of pratfalls, sight gags, tottering demises and improbable acrobatics reminiscent of silent comedies...
Advertising for cloak-and-dagger men and women may sound strange, but the END, as the agency is generally called, maintains that it works. Since the search began six months ago, there have been hundreds of applicants from a variety of backgrounds. The biggest single group is young lawyers (sniff's a BND personnel officer: "Lawyers think they can do anything"). Most of the applicants were weeded out early, including one 13-year-old aspiring James Bond. This week a handful of survivors will be selected for training after final tests for IQ, language ability and extemporaneous-speaking talent...
...take the example of another female expressing the love she needs, a need for "important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love..." If men and women start out speaking different languages, then Grace Paley's voice seems one of the most effective translations, into the language of the short story, of that female dialect...
...country's largest ethnic group, the King gets a small stipend from the national treasury. He gets by otherwise on gifts from loyal subjects as well as fees from camera-happy tourists who snap him in his royal robes and silver nosepiece-worn so that he will not sniff impure...