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...once more out on the streets of Phnom Penh, the capital, and the government was back in the business of executing its enemies. Tourists and foreign businessmen fled any way they could. After four years of faltering promise, Cambodia took a large backward step, and Phnom Penh had a whiff of Saigon in 1975, as timorous Cambodians approached foreigners with the plea: "Can you help...
...visitors still pause at People's Park, straining for a whiff of the tear gas that drifted off long ago, they will be disappointed. Berkeley, Calif., is in no danger of becoming the colonial Williamsburg of the student revolution. Grass-roots activism doesn't leave much behind in the way of bricks and mortar. What has survived is the politics that once tied the place in knots. So Professor Robert Alter, one of the nation's best-known literary scholars, finds himself an officer in the culture war over the Western canon...
Money only partly accounts for the heavy security inside the club. Virtually every 5 ft., a private guard decked out in mock-military garb sternly surveys the floor from an elevated watch post. The consortium that owns the club doesn't want a whiff of trouble with the authorities. "We make sure we do everything legally," says Rusa Won, rolling her eyes as she ticks off the police inspectors and health inspectors and fire inspectors and bureaucrats who come regularly to check compliance. Rusa Won regards dealing with such matters as part of the experience necessary in the street-wise...
...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...