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Trailing the visually dramatic T shirts by a nose are the Smellies shirts -scented with everything from pizza to burnt rubber. Microscopic capsules containing the odoriferous oils are embedded in the fabric; by scratching the shirt, the wearer breaks the capsules and releases the fragrance. In the past 18 months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such...
...early 19th century: Turner with his vortexes of air and toppling seas, Constable with his images of the domestic countryside, "a branch of natural philosophy, of which my pictures are but the experiments." Both lived through the Industrial Revolution and experienced the strains it exerted on the fabric of English society. Both stood on the threshold of the modern world. But Turner's delight in extremity, the catastrophic sublime rising from a deep instinctive pessimism, makes him appear a "modern" artist-perhaps the first. Not Constable. His green distances and slowly turning water mills, his amiable valleys and serene...
...Xerox machine has eased its way into the fabric of workaday America so subtly that only on occasion do people realize how important it has become. The U.S. Postal Service got away with raising postal rates at the end of the year after only a moderate amount of protest; but when the agency simultaneously shut down 2,400 coin-operated copiers in post offices (after complaints from private copy-service interests), public outrage was strong enough to have most of the machines restored. Much of the evidence that toppled Richard Nixon and his Watergate conspirators came from photocopied documents leaked...
...have ravaged the land. We have trashed some of our people. I have found dark stains on the nation's fabric, pessimism and alienation, bitterness at lack of leadership...
...Japan. The "stability" of the international order depends on the containment of the liberation movements and the preservation of pro-US regimes in this strategic area more than in any other. Finally, a successful Persian Gulf intervention appears as the master-stroke that can reconstitute the Vietnam-torn fabric of the bipartisan domestic consensus on foreign policy...