Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heaven's Gate philosophy added its astronomical trappings to a core of weirdly adulterated Christianity. Then came a whiff of Gnosticism, the old heresy that regarded the body as a burden from which the fretful soul longs to be freed. From the time of St. Paul, some elements of Christianity have indulged an impulse to subjugate the body. But like Judaism and Islam, it ultimately teaches reverence for life and rejects suicide as a shortcut to heaven...
...grizzly bear in the Utah mountains. Moreover, while most sitcoms in the '90s strive for some semblance of urbanity, Married...with Children has worked hard at maintaining a level of crassness unparalleled in prime time. Where else on TV will a character awaken from a coma thanks to a whiff of smelly feet...
...bought $3 million of stock at $12 a share. The stock has since doubled, and Wall Street again questions how much power Dunlap has left in his swing. He won't divulge plans. But with the coming announcement, like mighty Casey, he's got the spotlight. Will he whiff? Or go deep...
...dealer, contributed $20,000. The Democratic National Committee announced last week that it had returned the money, claiming no knowledge of his problems with the law. But in the overall responses of the President and his circle, which have ranged from the placid to the evasive, there is a whiff of hubris, the air of a campaign that sees every question mark as just another speed bump. Vice President Al Gore claims to have been entirely unaware that an April luncheon he attended at a Buddhist temple in California was an illegal fund raiser. With a face as straight...
...Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma will be sweetly familiar...