Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep-seated arguments against masturbation, often stemming from religious or conservative beliefs. One Mormon Web site nowscape.com/mormon/mormast--offered tips on how to stop the sinful activity which "in no way expresses the proper procreative power." It is easy to see why many women, still able to catch a sour whiff of historically male-centric garbage about whom she should please and why, might, even today, feel a bit guilty about actively pleasing themselves. One Dunster House junior commented that she "went to a Catholic school [where] a priest came in to give lectures about masturbation--and what...
...title says it all, or perhaps too much: a "simple and unadorned melody," as the author explains it, announcing his supposedly humble intentions. There are some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This time we're in Colorado cattle country, with Ike and Bobby Guthrie, ages nine and 10; their father Tom; two bachelor farmers, Harold and Raymond McPheron; and Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to go. Once the McPherons agree to care for Victoria, Haruf has roped in his plot...
...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...
...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...
Underclassman: "Please, man. Just a lil' whiff. One message, just one message...