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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, is a bold and bizarre exploration of sensual obsession. Set in 18th-century France, Perfume chronicles the rise of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the world's greatest perfumer, gifted with the world's most incredible sense of smell...
...effortlessly concocting the most popular fragrances in Paris is mere child's play for Grenouille, whose ultimate goal is to reproduce that "sweaty-oily, sour-cheesy, quite richly repulsive" odor that is human scent. Although Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is the greatest "smeller" in all the world, he has no body smell...
...suburban Houston's affluent Memorial area, Pawnbroker Jean Davis last month installed a drive-in window so that once rich oil barons would not have to embarrass themselves by going through the shop's front door. Davis recently began dispatching a black limousine to bring in clients. At Shaw's Jewelry and Loan on the eastern edge of Houston's tony River Oaks section, pawnbroker loans are running nearly 20% above last year's pace. The new clients are bringing in everything from a $35,000 bronze statue to state-of- the-art stereo systems. One oil company executive came...
...rope networks, high-mountain camps and bottled air that were part of the historic eight-thousander sieges, which frequently involved ten or more climbers supported by dozens of Sherpas. The minimalist technique has attracted thousands of imitators. Says Swiss Mountain Guide Erhard Loretan, 27, who, with his countryman Jean Troillet, 38, raced to the top of Everest last August and back down again to base camp in an astonishing 43 hours: "The reason we can now climb so quickly and easily is that Messner served as an example...
Time and its offspring, movement, have fascinated some modern artists. Sculptors can build it straight into their work -- the last half of the 20th century is full of wind-, gravity- or motor-powered contraptions that range from the balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward...