Word: stench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine guards were wounded. Some two-thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents fled, leaving behind thousands of others cowering in the basements of wrecked buildings without food, water, electricity or communications with the outside world. Unable to minister to the wounded, hospitals turned into morgues, reeking with the stench of decomposing bodies. Said a shaken President Elias Sarkis, in a terse summation of the carnage: "The latest events have left almost no family without a casualty and have ruined almost every house...
...proper, is a butcher shop openly displaying huge gory carcasses hung from steel hooks. The images form a contrapuntal irony. This is a subcutaneous play in which maggots infest the corrupt body of a seemingly sound and smugly self-satisfied society. The true atmosphere of the play is the stench of impending Nazism...
When a sewage purification plant in the town of Saint-Raphael overloaded, effluent poured into the sea, yet authorities were unable to keep campers out of the water despite an overpowering stench. Tourist officials claim that most beaches are safe for bathing, but the French monthly magazine Science et vie reports that health officials have found 649 cases of "negligible" pollution, 361 cases of the "medium" variety and 23 cases of "strong pollution" at 138 Mediterranean locations, among them Antibes, Cannes and Nice...
...left lying in the streets for days. The Zaïre news agency AZAP lamely tried to explain that "for purposes of identification and to facilitate the work of the press and the Red Cross, all bodies have been left at the spot where they were killed." As the stench became intolerable and the threat of a cholera epidemic grew, Red Cross officials recruited local workers, provided them with masks, and set up burial crews...
...those women who want the fanny rounded, the other for those who want it smooth. In one grotesque juxtaposition, the audience saw Dorf sitting with Eichmann and a couple of other SS officers in their dining room at Auschwitz. Eichmann sniffs the air and disgustedly remarks that the stench of the chimneys keeps him from enjoying his meal. We cut then to a Lysol commercial, in which a woman character named "Snoopy Sniffer" arrives at a housewife's kitchen and informs her that she has house odors. From her ovens? Can the mind swivel so wildly? Some of those...