Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, and I would finally add, "Yeah, a lot of people here seem to do things because they feel it's expected of them." "Hmm," my interviewer would smile, "I hear it gets particularly bad around this time of the year." Sooner or later, my interviewers got a whiff of my real interests, the way police dogs sniff out two kilos of hash in a carry...
Assembling the right group is a delicate business; as with any ritualized art form, from Kabuki to slasher films, one must follow rules but with a whiff of originality. Pearlman and his staff look at everything--the proportionate size of group members, their height, their weight, their hair color, their personalities onstage and off. Who will be the prankster, like 'N Sync's Chris Patrick? Who will be the lead sex symbol, like Backstreet's Nick Carter? Who can make a credible dangerous guy, the one who dresses more "urban" and maybe even has tattoos...
...weird scale and weave of plot lines, [it] was indeed innovative; its basic premises, though, were old news, which made its whiff of self-congratulatory nihilism annoying...
...seen it all. Or so he thinks, until the Eagle falls into the hands of managers from the head office, who express concern for their "customer-stroke-guests" while remaining oblivious to the shenanigans under their noses. Throw in a racist thug, some lovable Cockneys and Rastafarians, and a whiff of violence, and you've got a small bomb just waiting to explode. The plot here is incidental; what takes center stage is the driving, driven narrative voice...
...have a rule at the hedge fund that I run: sell a stock at the first whiff of accounting irregularities. This rule has kept us from losing fortunes, including those we had made in Oxford Health, Sunbeam and Waste Management, to name three recent situations where the stench of overcooked books, and a dramatic decline in stock price, followed closely behind that early whiff. When a stock gets hit because of a product glitch, or a short-term execution problem, I will consider holding on, or even buying more...