Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a British research team at the University of Warwick announced that it has isolated a steroid in the sweat of males. Highly purified, the substance smells like sandalwood oil, which is used as an ingredient in perfumes. But that is not half its charm. The researchers claim that the steroid is a pheromone, one of a group of chemicals with scents that influence behavior in many species of the animal world. Even better, it is apparently a male sex pheromone, which has a scent that attracts females. Equivalent pheromones exuded by some female insects, for example, draw males...
...Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). As Luis Buñuel's eccentric characters roam the French countryside in search of a good meal, a hilarious dream world comes to life...
Thus the picture that emerges from this book is of Pompeii on a far vaster scale. The photos are imbued with more than the familiar charm of things past; they are reflections of Russia's interrupted life story. That would explain the particular poignancy of the emotion experienced by the book's editor, Chloe Obolensky, as she studied the many photos she had unearthed from various libraries and private collections. She recalls in her preface that as the volume took shape, she was moved to see the photographs assume an unexpected "coherence and truth." Few readers can fail...