Word: smell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nature is an inescapable consequence of the process, McKibben argues. Once humanity contaminates its last spot of virgin earth, nature, a world apart, will cease to exist. In its place will be something that may look like nature and sound like nature and smell like nature, but will not feel the same...
...north to seek work, Braden was born and raised in the industrial town of Monroe, Mich. On his way to play football one day, Vic, then 11, passed the local tennis courts just as someone opened a can of balls. "You could hear the fizz," he recalls. "I could smell the rubber. It was an amazing kind of olfactory thing. I made up my mind I wanted one of those things...
After 162 games, the baseball playoffs begin today. By another quirk of fate, it just so happens that in this decade, all four of this year's playoff teams have been at the threshold of a world championship but have been unable to cross it. All four have smelled the roses, but none of them got to keep them, much less the trophy. Or the rings. And their fans could smell the roses...
...wingspans and a fish called the pirarucu, which can grow to more than 7 ft. long. Amid the vast assortment of jungle life, creatures command every trick in nature's book to fool or repel predators, attract mates and grab food. Caterpillars masquerade as snakes, plants exude the smell of rotting meat to attract flies as pollinators, and trees rely on fish to distribute their seeds when the rivers flood...
...never wrong," proclaimed film pioneer Adolph Zukor, and on such wisdom Hollywood was built. Zukor's maxim is as sound today as it was when Rodeo Drive was just a furrow in a field, but now it is being challenged by what may be the most offensive idea since Smell-O-Vision: commercials in movie theaters and on videocassettes...