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...smell the food before it arrives. The spicy scent of the traditional Portuguese fare--rice, fish and vegetables--quickly fills the room. It just looks like a hot meal on a cold day, but this is more than a free lunch...
...contrast, is a soft-spoken, slightly geeky-looking psychologist and computer scientist; his group is involved in the more practical, down-to-earth business of making the Web more readable. He uses the jargon of Internet ecology, talking about the way we "forage" for information and hunt its "scent" to produce a balanced "diet." But that doesn't make his tools and results any less gee-whiz than Gold's. Step into Card's lab, and he will show you the device he uses on his test subjects, a metal headpiece with little cameras positioned in front of each...
...merely young at heart but borderline infantile, and while her baby-talk affectations can verge on the precious, she's a savvy enough singer to pull it off. In the best songs, such as "Gladys and Lucy" and "Junk," the effect is as satisfying and sensual as the scent of lilac on a porch in the summer...
...rendition of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Denzel, Oscar-winning smart-guy actor that he is, doesn't join in. Of course, if I had delivered the performance that he did in "Malcolm X" in 1992 and still lost out to Al Pacino for his annoying role in "Scent of a Woman," (Hoo-hah!) I wouldn't be in the mood for singing for, oh, the rest of my natural life...
...important to recognize that unless some poor kid forgets her lunch that day, every single item will wind up in the garbage can.) And, in a delightful turn of events, my beloved lunchbox turned up two weeks later when my bus driver noticed a mysterious and unpleasant scent emerging from under a seat...