Evocative lines like, "I ain't called my mamma in a month of Sundays/ She'd smell the whiskey through that phone," outshine the cheap catchphrases that mar the rest of Rice's debut.
Sometimes, when the mother came in, she would get the girls up in their nightgowns, the night still in the windows, and sprinklers spitting in the courtyard, and she'd smell of vodka and smoke and money, and would put music on too loud and they'd all dance.
Jenny wrinkled her nose but said she'd smelled worse.
"I would open a jar," she says, "and it would smell so terrible.
Her solution was to buy vintage styles and alter them, "but then my clothes would smell like mothballs," she confided with a laugh.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," she is ironically expressing Romeo's own view of her as a substitute for Rosaline.
She looked up and said, 'Oh, I lost my earring.' Then she said, 'Here's my number — call me.' God, she smelled like I would imagine a mermaid would smell — I've never smelled it since, and I'll never forget it".
Mr. Allman fell in love with Cher, the third of his six wives, to whom he was married from 1975 through 1979, because, he writes, "she smelled like I would imagine a mermaid would smell".
She had brushed her teeth, and was confident the priests would smell no liquor on her breath.
Like a mermaid would smell?
