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...camera models Holmes himself. In the movie's opening, a demented Holmes speeds across Europe in pursuit of Moriarty. He leaves London's Victoria Station with its throngs of people and loud, smoke-bellowing engines and passes into the gleaming green Austrian countryside. With his bloodhound Toby on the scent of Moriarty, he rushes into Freud's house where the doctor is already expecting him. The detective casts a comprehensive glance over the interior of Freud's study and, knowing nothing about Freud, is able to reel off all the particulars of the doctor's life. Holmes's display...
...best, he preserves and freshens the essence of an older work. Says he: "That point of contact between past and present is fleeting. Often a 150-year-old opera is like a little flask of perfume. When you pull out the stopper, the risk is that the scent will vanish...
...four years later, has already lost some of its power. When the coach quotes Theodore Roosevelt glorifying "the man in the arena," the mind races automatically to memories of the Real Last Press Conference, and we can congratulate Miller for having anticipated Nixon so well. Nevertheless, it has the scent of yesterday's headlines; watching it is remembrance, not terror, as it was when we had Nixon before us, proclaiming he would not allow America to be reduced to a helpless pitiful giant...
...this, the Republicans thought they caught the scent of a likely victim. Said Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who will act as temporary chairman of the G.O.P. convention: "Carter is a Southern-fried McGovern or a Southern-fried Humphrey." Reagan Strategist Lyn Nofzinger beamed at the choice of Mondale. "We were very happy," he said...
...tampering with evidence. Yet it was typical of the new unity of the party that the New York Democrats, so prominent a force in years past, are binding together with others in the old Democratic coalition across the country-labor, minorities and so on. The prospect of victory, the scent of Republican blood, has been a powerful party healer...