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...author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 1998, Trumble's book artfully deconstructs the smile "into more lines than are in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies," as Malvolio is described in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Trumble watches it arc through art, anthropology and advertising - "a fabulously versatile contortion," he concludes, "capable of many meanings." Its current ascendancy, he argues, has come about through advances in dental science - allowing the smile...
...onto the set of a chaotic Vietnam movie. The ambiance is pitch-perfect; EA licensed original period antiwar hits like Fortunate Son so the tunes could blare ironically across the jungle. As in its predecessor, Battlefield 1942, players compete with strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city of Hue). Your aim is to capture as many flags and annihilate as many opponents as possible. But in this game, jungle-shrouded snipers are among the features that heighten the anxiety level. The game's best moment comes when...
...bespoke perfume process begins with a one-hour profiling session conducted by a stylist who asks a series of questions designed to map a customer's sensual and psychological makeup?what kind of scenery, music and textures she prefers; what sort of running water sounds she finds appealing?waterfall, gurgling brook or ocean surf. The company uses the information to match the customer with a perfumer, who begins to compose a fragrance, sending samples of the scent until it is refined to satisfaction. The whole process can take three months or more; prices start around...
...gown. To cater to their needs, Anastasia Brozler, founder of London-based Creative Perfumers, has gathered 16 of the world's leading perfumers under one roof. The bespoke perfume process begins with a one-hour profiling session conducted by a stylist who asks a series of questions designed to map a customer's sensual and psychological makeup - what kind of scenery, music and textures she prefers; what sort of running water sounds she finds appealing - waterfall, gurgling brook or ocean surf. The company uses the information to match the customer with a perfumer, who begins to compose a fragrance, sending...
...maps are just the beginning. The entire institution of travel is undergoing a rapid phase of abstraction. We are a generation that has never known what it means to reach a far off destination by passing through every point in between. Mass, rapid, modern transit means a loss of contact with the “in-between-ness” of places. Air travel is great because it lets us connect two distant places by just folding a map. And you’ll notice that if you fold correctly, what disappears into the crease is all the area...