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...politics and the local dictator's foxy daughter. All the while he bemoans his fate with Nabokovian wit and efficiency--when he alludes to the "typical drabness of the one-room Soviet apartment, with the bulbous refrigerator shuddering in the corner like an ICBM before launch," you can practically smell the spoiled milk...
...mama’s so ugly, she looked out her window and was arrested for indecent exposure! 10) Asking me to analyze any of Hemingway’s texts constitutes sexual harrassment. 11) Oh, I was prepared for a different type of oral… 12) I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 13) How much would it cost to bribe you? 14) Fuck you! I already have a banking job. 15) Is the proper term for a dwarf “midget” or “little person?...
...Striking images and strange insights are rare; most of the poems are predictably profound. The ending of “The Knowers” is typical: “dead leaves / come back as green / leaves: only / we / don’t return,” he writes. The smell of snow is a recurring motif in the poems, and there is a certain chilly, blandly poetic quality to the volume as a whole...
...every Whole Foods store, delight comes in the form of the pervading smell of freshly ground and brewed organic coffee (Whole Foods owns the beanery), the informative and amusing handcrafted wooden signs (PARMIGIANO-REGGIANO: THIS RAW MILD CHEESE IS THE FIRST ALL-NATURAL FOOD IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM SELECTED TO GO ON THE SPACE STATION) and, most conspicuously, from the rolling hills of Argentinean blueberries, heirloom tomatoes, Moro oranges and luscious produce, which seem to go on forever, even spilling out the door and into the parking lot in some locations...
...don’t mind it. I hope it’s going to be better,” she says. The seven clusters of gray concrete that compose Charlesview Apartments contrast sharply with the white finish of its neo-Georgian neighbor, Harvard Business School (HBS). The stairwells smell like rotting metal and the concrete steps are worn. American flags and Easter baskets adorn the scratched red and blue doors. Bicycles and television buzz overflow into the landings. Inside the apartments there is wall-to-wall carpeting, a couch, a television. Some contain two stories and many open onto private...