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...permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Master of the Anxious Eye | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...glazed with the sight when I arrived in Loyang, the provincial, capital of Honan; and there at the station, in the dark, they were packing refugees into boxcars like lumber for the night run over the gap. And again, the stink of urine and bodies; then, through the deserted streets to the Catholic mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...smoking-nonsmoking controversy boils down to two words: Smokers stink! Leland M. LaBar Bethlehem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Jess Hungate, a member of the Law School Board of Student Advisors, said yesterday, "Students are upset about it, but they are not up in arms. The main thing is that there has not been a big stink...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: $450 Law School Tuition Hike Likely | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...Buffett had stayed country, maybe, just maybe, he might have kept his edge, the edge that cropped up less and less in the later albums: The Muzak of Havana Daydreaming, for instance, also had "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus." Whatever whammy Buffett still has doesn't come out in the songs he writes nowadays, only in his concerts, because there, his barband background can't help but stomp. Buffett's genial Musak musings are a lot easier to take, too, when he serves them up-tempo...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

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