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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what does such plaintive music have to do with this daring, ultimately triumphant mission? As the narrator, Hal Holbrook strikes the same note of puny nostalgia. Even the scenery, while wonderful to look at, is often shot too delicately. Where's the sense of adventure, the wildness, the smell of buffalo grease? This is a story we want Jack London to tell us, but we get M. Scott Peck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: DOMESTICATED DARING | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...GOOD TASTE After age 70, most adults lose some sense of smell, a study finds. Taste often goes too. Result: food tastes bland, and many elderly run the risk of malnutrition--or accidental poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...wrote William Blake, "is eternal delight," and there has never been anything in American art to match the effusive, unconstrained energy of Rauschenberg's generous imagination. Compared with the more pursed, hermetic and self-reflexive Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg is and always has been a gusher. He loves the sound, smell, grunge and look of the street. He doesn't look at his sources in American vernacular--photos, movies, and junk of all kinds--with anything resembling irony or distance. He is in it up to the neck and wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: THE GREAT PERMITTER | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...smell of smoke lingered in the entryway yesterday and a large, sickle-shaped scar is visible on the wooden door...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fire in Drop Box Sets Off Early-Morning Alarm in Winthrop | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

GOSSIP by Cindy Adams $18.50 for 1 oz. Over a bowl of pasta at Patsy's restaurant, the New York Post's society columnist Cindy Adams realized, "Gossip is in the air. Everyone wants a whiff of it." The smell? Spicy, with nothing subtle about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 13, 1997 | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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