Word: odorants
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...rest of the old establishments, largely porn emporiums and small shops selling cheap consumer goods, have been evicted. Gone too is the sick-sweet odor of mildew and disinfectant that used to permeate the block, a calling card for its unwholesome diversions. If all goes according to plan, their place will be taken by, among many other things, the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (a new megatheater for musicals combining two of the street's original stages), vast multiplex movie theaters and more tourist lures like Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...
...appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their time." Into this "odor of menace" strolls Blessington's girlfriend, looking for trouble...
...Odor of menace" is an apt description of Stone's fictional atmospherics. His people either find themselves in, or get themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. "The way," the poet is told once the trip has begun, "is to go up the mountain and make it all complete." In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that "this drink...
...rescuing it from its second-class status as women's work. And his timing is impeccable. As politics declines ever further, he has taken on the task of revitalizing civic life, which if successful will only raise the clamor for him to salvage politics as well. Perhaps the odor will get so bad that the presidency will be virtually handed to him, a four-star general of his own all-volunteer army...
...reason the Girl Scouts of America don't make money on sales of their cookies [BUSINESS, Feb. 3] is poor labeling, poor packaging and cheap, cheap, cheap ingredients. Flavor, odor and taste are missing. Pigeons and sparrows won't eat Girl Scout cookies when you throw them out in the yard. If the manufacturer were given the money to produce an attractive package with top-quality cookies, the Girl Scouts wouldn't be able to keep up with the orders. Stop living in a dream world, girls. RONALD C. NEETZ Chesterton, Indiana...