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...calling the kettle sterling. But people gossip and debate more today about critics and commentators than about the events they cover. Brendan Gill cashed in on this new phenomenon with "Here at the New Yorker," as did Timothy Crouse with "Boys on the Bus." This summer, the scent of profit in this new field brings us a look at office politics at (it's come to this) The Village Voice...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Reeling and Roll'em | 7/2/1976 | See Source »

...dream. The connection he embodies between incest, political power and capitalism finds a voice in his eloquent, filthy madness. Robert Towne's amazing screenplay sketches the self-cannibalizing character of urban growth. There is no scene in the movie which doesn't reek of the Noah Cross character's scent. If there's any weak spoke, it's the banality of the "Chinatown" theme, which never really rings true. Nicholson, it seems, can dip endlessly into some well of inventiveness and charm and never scrape. His J.J. Gittes destroys and transcends the romantic stereotype of the hard-boiled dick...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, Peter Kaplan, and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...scent of Harvard's new vulnerability had trickled down the coast and across the country. Crews hawked the racing shirts they might in other years have lost to the Crimson for tickets to the San Diego Crew Classic and their first pot shots at Harvard's untried varsity...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Crimson Rowers Defend Title In Regatta on Charles Today | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

Like others, she seeks out the view from the Truman Balcony. She sniffs with special pleasure the scent of magnolia blossoms that are outside her bedroom window, the tree having been planted 140 years ago by Andrew Jackson. The crack of the White House flag in the wind is a reassuring greeting on breezy days. At lunchtime, she searches for the sun in the solarium on the third floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Betty Ford's White House Favorites | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Betsy has clearly completed the evolution. She is an ice-queen (Shepherd seems incapable of playing anything else), self-possessed for as long as she can sustain her fortress of manila folders and coy sexuality. But when Travis takes her to a 42nd Street moviehouse, she runs--the scent of real life, outside her redcarpeted office, is too much for her to deal with...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Burnt Out at the Bellmore | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

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