Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Optima affair, with its whiff of a cover-up, raises many unsettling questions about what top executives knew, and when. Robinson, for instance, concedes that he wasn't made aware of the problems at Optima until a month or so ago, a point that raised eyebrows throughout the industry. Says a high- ranking executive at a rival credit-card company: "I heard rumors about Optima's losses a year ago. Something's wrong when competitors knew before American Express senior executives did. If James Robinson didn't know, he should have...
...typically white European male response toward unclaimed territory, combining voyeurism, sex and predatory aggression. This reading filters out all the fun and, more important, the awe and wonder that the Americas sparked in European minds. And the New World fed Europe more than literary tropes, intellectual excitement and a whiff of the exotic. It fed Europe . . . food, stuff that native Americans had been cultivating for thousands of years and that Europeans had never heard of: peppers, paprika, potatoes, corn, tomatoes...
Enter town on Stalingrad Street. Take a whiff of the pink and red flowers planted around V.I. Lenin's bust. Among the high-rise concrete blocks of the Karl Marx Quarter, comrades are hawking the latest edition of the Communist Party newspaper. Plastered along Avenue Yury Gagarin, Nelson Mandela Street and Avenue Salvador Allende, posters sport a red hammer and sickle and a soft- sell slogan: A JOB, JUST TO SURVIVE...
...segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that "I wanted not only sirens and barking dogs, but I even envisioned a whiff of tear...
...opening production showed the effects of its struggle to adapt to changing times. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the company presented a brand-new version of its trademark work, Eugene Onegin. Only in the ballroom scene of the last act did the Bolshoi offer a whiff of its old grandiosity. Otherwise, the staging -- apparently designed to focus more attention on the main characters -- relied on one all-too-all-purpose country-house set for the first four scenes and on one skeletal tree for the fifth...