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...Reno streets, have been displaced by quiet, invisible graduates of business schools. The last convicted felon to be spotted by a local columnist on the Strip was Michael Milken, the junk-bond king. "What this town needs," says Bob Stupak, the crusty owner of Vegas World, "is that scent of vice, a little sin, to stir that desire to come to Las Vegas...
...small Latin American village by the ocean, sea-crabs haunt a poor man in his sleep. The man, named Tobias, perceives the odor of roses rising from the sea. The villagers soon become aware of the scent, the village becomes a carnival and a mythically rich American named Mr. Herbert arrives to solve everyone's problems. Such is the core of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "The Sea of Lost Time," now a dramatic production appearing at Adolphus Busch Hall...
...biography prize for Truman, the book that triggered the "I'm Truman . . . No, I'm Truman" cross talk during last year's presidential campaign. A surprise came with an award to Robert Olen Butler for his short-story collection seen through the eyes of exiled Vietnamese, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. And playwright Tony Kushner was cited for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, his epic about aids and the American soul. Kushner released a statement that read in part: "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS...
...Luther King Jr. (1982) and William Faulkner (1987). His travail began in 1990, when an American literature professor named Robert Bray delivered a paper at an Illinois historical conference that pointed out some close similarities between passages in Oates' and Thomas' Lincoln biographies. Some other scholars jumped at this scent and began combing through Oates' writings, looking for evidence of unacknowledged borrowing from other sources. A year later, complaints of plagiarism against Oates were brought to the American Historical Association...
...Scent of a Woman": Did I mention that prep schools are full of sleaze-balls that hide behind their fathers, too? And that they enjoy lording it over the scholarship students...