Word: stench
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started making their home under the red roof during Khmer Rouge rule, when the museum was vacant. By the early 1990s, curators were desperate to evict them as droppings?up to a ton a month?coated the artifacts below and threatened to collapse the second-floor ceiling. A putrid stench distracted gallery patrons, and on one memorable occasion, bat lice in the air elicited an allergic reaction from a visiting Thai princess...
...look up at a picture of my friend and myself in front of the Western Wall, with the golden Dome of the Rock peaking out like a rising sun overhead. I wish for the pictures simplicity and truth amidst swirling clouds of misinformation and the vaporous stench of rhetoric...
...itself I found my greatest test. Prior to the talent competition, I stood outside Leverett Dining Hall in a dimly lit alley waiting for the stage door to open. Three local youths—two women and a guy—approached me with their bloodshot eyes and the stench of alcohol on their breath. The male pressed me to take off my wig. He wanted to run on stage, he explained, and shout expletives at the “faggots” in drag. I told him my wig was glued to my head. Then he pulled...
Stock-market panic? Depression? That's what those Dutch financiers would have us believe. I say, Give it six months, and the whole thing will blow over--just like the foul stench of their gouda...
...novelette, which was originally called "Tell Me About It Tomorrow," runs 60 pages as reprinted in a recent collection of Lehman's short fiction. It's good reading, from the title - itself a press agent's misrepresentation of a story drenched in sour stench - to the abrupt ending of Sidney's discovering Hunsecker at the door, seeing his furious face and crying, "J.J.! Jesus! Don't!" (Is he about to beat Sidney up or actually kill him? Is this tale, like "Sunset Blvd." of the same year, narrated by a corpse...