Word: stink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your own home...It's hard for some of us to get down in the cellar. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. That's a very real thing, the way that book sort of smells, it's the plumbing under the homes, I remember, this stink arising from under the house itself. Throughout the book he smells bad things...
...stink is more than just nose-wrinkling. It is bad enough to make some people retch in the street. Outdoor parties are canceled, and people retreat to their houses, shutting the windows and turning on the air conditioners...
Providentially, the opening of The Touch in Cambridge this week coincides with Gould's much-heralded appearance here to receive the Lampoon's Worst Actor of the Year award. Gould's ingratiating good-guy performance at Sanders Theater last weekend, before a stink of cantankerous thrill-seekers (including many bolsheviks and "hippies"), was demonstration perhaps that he is rank only on film, and might live happily and successfully as ice cream man or door-to-door stockbroker. To betoken our good will, we have deleted from paragraph five a particularly gratuitous and leering reference to Barbra "Color Me Barbra" Streisand...
Lineups in Blue The scene was unprecedented. Seventy policemen in uniform, all of them white, their faces hard-set, lined up as suspects while four blacks passed from one to the next trying to make identifications. The tension was tangible. "You stink," hissed one cop as one of the Negroes, a woman, peered closely at him. The scene in Buffalo was repeated four times during the past two weeks till 278 cops had appeared before the black quartet. They were the first all-police lineups in memory...
Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...