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Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."
Flank marking is a scent marking behavior involved in olfactory communication [ 3 ] , and is characterized by arching the back and rubbing the flank glands vigorously against objects in the environment.
It's often clear they hate something, if only the horrid jostle and pressure of covering the shows; or, maybe, it's dislike of their own contorted rhetoric that's rubbing off on what they say about the clothes.
Scentmarks, containing estrus-inducing pheromone, were collected by rubbing 4 sides of a 7-ml glass vial on the suprasternal gland of an unrelated male.
Long, luxurious smooches can end in a sound like planes of glass rubbing, or even in a cheep.