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When I was a kid, we always went to movies, and I loved the experience. My dad liked the popcorn at movies better than anyplace else. I still get a fond feeling when I smell popcorn--and not the air-popped kind but the real McCoy. It's a fairly fattening proposition, I might...
Regardless, it didn’t take long for the Garden to smell blood. Even as the lottery picks were being called, people focused their attention acutely on Tolbert, who had done nothing wrong on this night. His reputation, unfortunately, preceded him. He is pretty well-known by NBA fans in general as a brashly self-assured commentator who seemingly lacks the commentating chops. Arguably, he is Steven A. Smith, except white, not entertaining, and without the ability to angrily strike the fear of God into your heart. And so they pounced...
...Mesopotamians, who invented New Year's about 4,000 years ago, celebrated in March, after the spring equinox; the Egyptians chose September, which remains a natural candidate, since we never lose the memory of the smell of sharp pencils, the crack of new books. But the end of school feels much more like the true end of the year, far more than that strange week of playing with new gadgets and shopping the after-Christmas sales. Teachers say kids go a little crazy in June (honest teachers admit they do as well), caught in a nasty collision of Separation Anxiety...
...more to Noe's story than even a talented writer like Maine could tell in a dozen novels, though here's hoping he tries. As we learn in Genesis 9: 28, "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years." Three hundred and fifty years? Do I smell a sequel? As Noe's wife wearily, wisely puts it, "The test doesn't end when the flood does. It's only the start." --By Lev Grossman
Mohammad Yasin Khan started to suspect there was a problem when the industrial park?on the edge of Suva, Fiji's capital?began to smell like a latrine. A warehouse had been set up there to manufacture plastic furniture. But Khan, who runs a hardware store on the same block, said the factory workers seemed paranoid, avoiding conversation and reinforcing the doors and windows with metal bars. And the smell from a nearby culvert was foul. "We thought maybe it was something from the shop," he says. "The smell of the drain, it was like urine...