Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal of this production does a splendid job of suggesting the atmosphere that would generate such a style. In the first scene, where Tobias (Billy Hulkower) is haunted by the crabs, the actors swirl in an eerie and effective dance. The scene where Petra (Neela Pania), who interprets the smell of roses as a sign from God, dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground of the villagers' overlapping voices, repeating phrases in an incantatory fashion. The effect recalls a scene...
...books said dinosaurs had a poor sense of smell, but this one seemed to do just fine. Anyway, what did books know? Here was the real thing...
...COMIC short stories, VERTIGO PARK AND OTHER TALL TALES (Knopf; $18), is like a literary version of Saturday Night Live -- a boatload of strained laughs mixed with a few great jokes that keep the whole thing afloat. Bright spots: "She didn't realize deliberate perkiness offended, the way the smell of ammonia becomes associated with the odors it's supposed to remove," and "Necessity is the mother of affection," and "Do you not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you?" There are pieces about Samuel Beckett, obsessed fans and psychics. It's a fitfully amusing...
What makes Mike run? For starters, he surely wants to cleanse himself of agenting's residual Sweet Smell of Success-era taint. In the old-fashioned show business pecking order, according to a veteran producer at one of the studios, agents were "one step above child molester." Ovitz and CAA have given their trade glamour and stature of a kind that was unimaginable a generation ago, but they still can't order a movie or TV show into production; they are still only middle people, not buyers. On the other hand, Ovitz has turned down the top job at Columbia...
...chief scientist, Jan Beyea, was in on all these decisions. Even so, he was stunned by one result of the effort: an odorless building. "A month before we moved in, I'm walking around, and they are painting the walls and laying down the rugs and I can't smell anything," Beyea recalls. "That shows we did our job." Beyea attributes the facility's overall success to "a hundred, maybe several hundred, different little things, each of which by itself is rather insignificant...