Word: whiff
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...chairman Terry Semel. When a reporter notes that those magazines don't report to Semel--and weren't expressly conceived to funnel ideas to Warner Bros.--Brown interjects that the proof of integrity will ultimately lie, as it should, with the magazine itself. "There is a kind of whiff of corruption that comes off an unpure magazine. It's like that empathic communication between dolphins--you don't have to speak about...
...same England she left, nor the same one that supported her to the hilt during last November's trial. The tabloids are beginning to turn on Louise: "First Class Child Killer," blared the front page of Thursday's London Mirror. It was a tale with a whiff of sour grapes -- British Airways had flown Louise in first class, with a Massachusetts state trooper beside her to keep reporters like the Mirror's at bay. Yet for a paper that once declared the au pair "free at last!" it was a stunning turnaround -- and a sign of growing disquiet over baby...
Like sardines in mustard sauce, Harlan's accent has a taste whose enjoyment requires some concerted cultivation. At first whiff, the quirks of her character are so sharp as to be repulsive. Her prattling naivete as subtly disturbing as a toddler playing with a loaded handgun, Harlan gabs about everything from slavery to the aesthetic of rock-star fashion with the same maddening equanimity, made worse by her mingling of each topic's catch-phrases with the provincialism of her exaggerated Southern accent...
...Kramerbooks & Afterwords, a Washington bookstore, is going to court to fight a subpoena issued by Starr for records of books Lewinsky purchased there -- which, the Washington Post says, include Nicholson Baker?s steamy classic, ?Vox.? Starr is well within his rights, but the first whiff of a First Amendment battle is likely to erode what little public support the prosecutor still has. ?Ken Starr seems to give little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with...
...have no problem with other people's drinking when they do it because they view alcoholic beverages as aesthetic delights. It just ain't my bag, baby--one whiff of wine and I have flashbacks from childhood of having to swig Robutussin to cure a bad cough. But since I've sniffed some pretty strong potpourri in my time, I can appreciate the value of a good buzz...