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...maybe some of you have a soft spot for a cold one. Be it a foamy Bud Lite or smooth, slithery seafood. Like a whiff of old-school Clairol Herbal Essence, one gulp of these brews can bring you back. (For a close-up on beer, tune in next weekend for The Crimson's exclusive look at the Head of the Charles weekend...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Confessions of an Autumnophile | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...limo stop alongside a drunk, rolls down the window and lets the drunk see...twin Stalins! "Drink a little less," Uncle Joe advises, and the limo roars off. This Stalin takes in the world with a savage candor. At a meeting with his hatchetman Lavrenty Beria, "I caught a whiff of that hideous cologne that Beria favored, the cologne of an unctuous headwaiter, the cologne of a rapist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Name Of Evil | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Underclassman: "Please, man. Just a lil' whiff. One message, just one message...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Why Our Class is Better Than Your Class | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...bias shift in that direction." Of course, this walk-on-water economy of ours hasn't given Greenspan cause to raise rates in quite a while either; the fear is that that could change. Baumohl says Greenspan, as always, will wait and see. "Those price numbers were just the whiff of inflation," he says. "Raising rates now could have put the feeble Asian recovery in jeopardy." What keeps the markets happy is that the man on top has a discriminating nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fed Lets Inflation Off With a Warning | 5/18/1999 | See Source »

...total loss. Andrew D. Hackbarth `99 attributes the name of his party-prone room in Kirkland House, The Swamp, to his roommate's notorious foot odor problem. But usually, the revealing skin of open toe cleavage, spaghetti strap fronts and backless heels loses all appeal when accompanied by a whiff of that pungent foot smell, caused by a combination of rotting skin and bacteria and sweat-sock fungus...

Author: By V.c. Hallett, | Title: Those Stinky, Nasty Feet | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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