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...experience was not quite as glamorous as I had hoped. Last Friday's Donald Trump-run pageant took place in Gary, Ind., which meant it was short on the sophistication of Atlantic City and long on a really disturbing smell. Even worse, a new rule, designed to cut down on breast-augmentation surgery, allowed padding in the bikinis and dresses. It also turned out that I had been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent...
...there were other victims, whispers Diran, who is squatting by the soccer pitch, puffing on a cigarette. "I don't know how many were chased into the forest and killed." He shrugs and gestures up the road in its direction. "But it must be a lot. You can still smell them up there...
...talking about the bedtime variety. No, the story Im talking about is the kind you hear from the guy sitting next to you at the pub, the story about the guy who owns the chipper down the streetyou know, Joe and Frank's dad. There's a smell of whiskey in the air and you're sure the bloke staring you in the face is telling you the biggest load of bollocks this side of Cork, but you can't help but listen. Conor McPherson, one of the hottest young playwrights to come out of Ireland in the last decade...
Bonner was no less dumbfounded, when she admitted, "I'm sort of confused--I feel like the purpose of Dining Services is to feed people." Touche. I smell re-election...
Every sense is heightened. "You hear the motor, gear, transmission. You can tell when a tire is rubbing a fender--you will smell the change." You have a piano tuner's sense for the harmonics of your motor. It might change pitches because a valve spring is breaking. "When something changes, you understand," says Cope. You will know when a car is near. "There are times you can't see it, but you can hear it, or hear the air on your car." Your skin is a tool too. "You get a sense of buffeting. You can feel...