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Franji found Abdullah laid out in the emergency room. She counted three stitches where doctors had sewn up the hole where the bullet had entered. There was blood all over. Someone had perfumed the boy's body, but she believed his sweet smell was, she later said, "a sign of Abdullah's acceptance by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, who applies the scent of paradise." Recalling that Abdullah had still been fasting when he died, she says, "He broke his fast with Allah." The boy's family filed a suit against the Palestinian police, but Franji has no hope...
...possibly recommend The Salton Sea? If it could, this nasty film would make you smell the disgusting food on the table. And that says nothing about its casual sadism. One spaced-out speed freak has his female companion sandwiched between mattress and box spring, her legs twitching convulsively while he conducts a drug deal. The bad people in this film are, frankly, morons. They are not theoreticians of the theater of cruelty. It is their creators who are confusing the administration of giggly shocks with aesthetic ambition...
...There’s no way around it: the dogwood trees around Leverett smell strongly of semen. So does Holly T. Vargas...
Nicotine pops look a lot like regular lollipops, but they smell a little weird and leave a sour aftertaste. Most contain either 2 mg or 4 mg of a chemical called nicotine salicylate and sell for about $3 apiece. They're made by independent pharmacists, who have long had the right to mix various active ingredients, usually following a doctor's orders, into preparations that aren't commercially available...
...with Tom Stoppard plays. Now they are marching through our American classics, retooling them and throwing them back at us. And lately they have been stumbling. Acclaimed director Nicholas Hytner, soon to take over London's National Theatre, couldn't solve the problem of how to turn Sweet Smell of Success, the film-noir classic, into a Broadway musical. Trevor Nunn's production of Oklahoma!, which won raves in London, failed to wow the critics in its Broadway debut. The problems can't be totally explained by union rules that usually prevent British casts from making the trip over here...