Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century Georgia. Celie's story is one both of injustice, at the fists of black men, and of emotional regeneration, at the caressing hands of black women. The demotic narrative style, filled with humor, horror and the obsession to survive, softens Walker's messages: Sisterlove is beautiful, and Men stink. We are inside Celie's head, and for all the tragedies stored there, it is a lovely place to live. It might also seem the perfect spot for Spielberg to visit, since virtually all of his films are about the separation and cathartic reunion of parent and child. The book...
...McAleavey, an operations supervisor for Facilities Maintenance, said early this morning that "we'll get it repaired tomorrow. In the morning, they'll find something to clean up the water and keep the stink down...
Casmalia is not far from the Pacific, and the stink usually rolls in at night with the fog, often strong enough to wake people. But it also comes during the day. People are driven indoors; windows are shut tight in balmy weather; the Hitching Post, a local steakhouse, has occasionally been forced to close. "There is no other topic," says Postiff's wife Paulette. "It seems that's all you talk about or think about...
From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
Twenty minutes later, surveying a massacred patch of flowers, he hits me with the inevitable line: "You go to HARVARD and you don't know the difference between goober weeds and stink weeds?!!! Gawwwwdamn...