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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than grant one another their mutual irredeemability, the dignity of their otherness. Screenwriter Brian Moore, adapting his novel, avoids anachronistic political correctness, and director Bruce Beresford refuses melodramatic imposition -- no dancing with wolves for them. This magnificently austere epic makes us too feel (and taste and smell) that otherness, the discomfiting strangeness of these lives, the authentic tragedy of their collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Leaves a Six-Pack | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...really think that? Maybe you're right. I may be in the minority. I just think the American people smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging into The Labyrinth | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Gilligan says studies like these have shown how girls' behavior may be different from what was previously perceived as the norm for adolescents. They can "smell bullshit a mile away," says Elizabeth Debold, a fourth-year graduate student who has been involved in many of the Harvard Project's studies...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Exploring Voices in a World of Difference | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...begins with a metaphysical trip to the movies. While the Sniffer, his very murderer, attends a prestigious Toronto film festival, Gil experiences an incomparable film festival in which his ancestors star. The subtlety, artfulness and capability displayed by the mystical film director move Gil. He can hear orchestral music, smell the scenes and even intuit the thoughts of the characters. Gil cannot turn away-he must watch the films of his personal history...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: A Murther at the Movies | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

...already had about six beers can be as desperate to use a bathroom as were the people waiting on line. Another consequence was the condition of the bathrooms. When men get a little too much alcohol in their system, their aim worsens. And for both genders, the smell of vomit in a portable toilet is even worse than the smell of a portable toilet by itself...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Game Was The Pits | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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