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...York City have flown down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...
...sort of detail that Didion knows how to use so well: the beach towels at the San Salvador super market that are printed with maps of Manhattan that pinpoint Bloomingdale's; the local woman who gets out of a taxi in a provincial town and leaves behind the scent of Arpege; the dubbed television version of The Winning Team, starring Doris Day and Ronald Reagan, in which the now U.S. President exclaims in accented English, "Play ball!" The 1952 movie is about the pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, and the game is hardball. - By R.Z. Sheppard
...Danish and followed the tracks of Baroness Karen Blixen, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, through Europe, Africa and the U.S. In the Dinesen family's country house, she was allowed to stay the night: "Can you imagine what it was like, lying in bed with the scent of roses and the ticking of clocks in every room, and downstairs were all those papers and letters locked away...
...glad it's over." Of course it is not done, either for Hula, Cruz, Wally Liberty (the pilot of the boat) or Hula's girlfriend Lisa Bishop. It is bad enough that Arthur Rawden, a canny investigator for the Drug Enforcement Agency, has picked up their scent. It is worse that a mysterious bald man continues to stalk Cruz, threatening to kill him and his associates. Worst of all, some of the ablest hired guns on the East Coast have converged on Miami, with orders to pay Cruz $10 million for the dope and then kill him, preferably...
...children's costumes, representing thousands of yards of fabric coaxed into stunning shape with a skill and diligence that today cannot be had anywhere outside of major surgery. The olfactory nerve, meantime, gets a good working over from L'Heure Bleue, a Guerlain scent that is sprayed every morning throughout the galleries. The senses reel. They are meant to. This is not art-if clothes may be called art at all-meant to be pondered and absorbed. This is curatorial show business of a particularly shrewd order. With the humble addition of a light show and the sale...