But perhaps more noxiously, a culture was generated in which investment banking seemed smart, charismatic and the source of fortunes.
Stuck at an angle near a buried fire hydrant, they were pushing and spinning and getting nowhere, with the smell of burning rubber noxiously sharp in the cold air.
Two other series selections, "Wundkanal" and "Our Nazi," serve as something of a double-bill expansion on the recent documentary "Harlan — In the Shadow of 'Jew Süss.' " The Harlan in "Harlan — In the Shadow of 'Jew Süss' " was Veit Harlan, the German filmmaker and pet propagandist of Joseph Goebbels who directed the noxiously anti-Semitic film "Jew Süss" (or "Jud Süss," 1940).
Karl Lindner is the same man who appears, briefly and noxiously, in "A Raisin in the Sun," where he tries to talk the Youngers out of moving into his neighborhood.
In person he was a bland, unsociable man whose politics, in the beginning, anyway, were noxiously right-wing.
Unless Ms. Russell had you at "alligator wrestlers" — not likely — you may well recoil at every noxiously fanciful item on that list.
Each of us takes our turn to stoke it, kick some life into it, or, when it smokes noxiously in choking gusts that seem to follow us everywhere, snatch up a tray and fan it until the fire erupts from its every pore.
The BB range leans heavily on the noxiously sweet and industrial, inexplicably bestselling stuff like Yellowtail, Barefoot and Apothic, or lesser-known names such as the aptly named Crimes Red, Australia 2014 (£7.99), the jarring jammy sweetness of which left my palate feeling violated.
The leaders' families were represented as so noxiously virtuous that it was hard to remember which one had a father who ran a youth club and whose mother was a magistrate.
These absurd doings may not strike you as natural Pulitzer Prize material, but the biting humor must have struck the judges as a nice tonic for the restless national mood — as indeed it is today, when politics and showbiz are ever more noxiously intertwined.
But Roosevelt biographers often subscribe to certain orthodoxies, and one of them is this: When Roosevelt made noxiously racist and ethnocentric remarks about Anglo-Saxon greatness, so what?
