Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's something magical about a new building. The smell of paint mixed with sawdust, the perfectly clean floors, the bustle of moving in, making a new space a more familiar home or office, all give me a thrill. I had the double good fortune this summer to see a new building completed and then to work in it as the interior was polished and belongings brought in. I helped in the moving of the English Department from the Warren House (formerly home of the graduate English program, soon to be home of the Women's Studies Program) to what...
...just as much grease but none of the claustrophobic charm? I don't think so. Let's leave it. It may not have butter patties on the ceilings, but probably almost as many Harvard freshmen have eaten there as they have in the former Union. Besides, I like the smell of greasy fries just about as much as the fragrance of sawdust mixed with fresh paint...
...second place is the Barker Center, which, while equally spacious and immaculate, lacks the user-friendliness of the Adams dining hall. Perhaps it's the ski lodge smell, or the endless number of office administrators smiling behind glassed-in department cubicles, or the towering front doors that refuse to open, but somehow it doesn't yet feel like home...
...left the White House, she went to St. Alban's School and got in her laps at the swimming pool. The buzz was the development officer was going to bottle the water and sell it. I teased her the next day: 'What do you do to get the chlorine smell out of your hair?' She looked at me with wide, unbelieving eyes. 'Haven't you heard of shampoo...
...film of the hospital," says IMRAN KHAN, the cricket superstar turned politician, of the cancer center he established. "She called Annabel [Goldsmith, his mother-in-law] and said, 'I want to help.' There was a young boy who had a tumor on his face. That tumor was festering. It smelled, it really smelled. I was sitting 4 ft. away, and I could smell it. And she picked him up. She held him, completely oblivious to everything." Recalls the hospital's medical director, DR. G.M. SHAH: "The boy could not open his mouth; one eye was closed...