Word: smell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell anything if you had the money." Blumenthal lived from starvation job to starvation job. He dragged bodies off the streets after the U.S. air raids during the war. He peddled huge sausages door to door. "You were always hungry. Carrying those bags full of sausages. The smell! It was all you could do to keep from grabbing one, but one bite...
...example, if I smell Chanel No. 5, I'm attracted," he added...
...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
...smell it in the air yesterday? I mean, here it is, only February, and you've been trying to put it out of your mind for at least a couple more weeks (for the sake of the NBA), but it stared you right in the nostrils...
...main academics in the anticult lineup were Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Clark and University of Washington Law Professor Richard Delgado. Clark raised frightening specters of suicide, "uncontrolled violence," trances and total loss of memory, even distorted sense of smell (unexplained), among cultists. He made it clear that he saw the cultists as mindless zombies who pose a clear threat to democratic societies. "There are armies of willing, perfectly controlled soldiers," he told the assorted Senators and Representatives. "The level of public nuisance is so high that Government must act before it is too late...