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...parading his encyclopedic memory for shtick, he was a throwback to every baggypants tummeler, every silent-movie clown. And like those masters, he knew that a pie in the face was the visual equivalent of a rim shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained this precise, predictable rhythm in a 2002 interview with Ed Grant on the Manhattan cable-access show Media Funhouse: "Guy says, 'Where's the watercooler?' I say, 'Alaska,' and get hit with...
Liljenquist says the real-life implications of the study could be as simple as an office investing more in janitorial supplies than in expensive and intrusive surveillance equipment to keep workers in line. Other olfactory researchers suggest, however, that perhaps it wasn't the clean smell that made people more virtuous in the new study, but rather the smell of citrus; that is, people may have behaved better because they smelled something they liked, rather than something "clean." "It could be simply that a positive smell creates a positive mood, which encourages positive behavior. You cannot conclude it is cleanliness...
...commercially available product. Incidentally, according to a psychologist who has worked with it in experiments, it is nearly impossible to rid upholstery of it. Citrus-scented Windex certainly makes for a nicer lab environment, which perhaps has something to do with Liljenquist's continued interest in this line of study. "Research on how to stay on the moral high ground and promote virtue," she says, "is something I find refreshing...
...After they are married, she submits to his urges to make more publicity appearances because she does not know what else to do; the financial backing for her flights must come from somewhere, and so she squeezes her sprawling personality into advertisements for everything from cameras to a clothing line. Although Earhart’s triumphant press conferences and bold declarations of freedom made her a celebrity in her time and a legend in ours, Swank is best in times of conflict and uncertainty; in one such scene, there is even an ironic tribute to “Patton?...
Determined to establish a direct bus line between Harvard Square and New York City by mid-November, a transportation service company that currently runs bus routes throughout the northeast is still facing one important barrier: the city of Cambridge...