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...other word would smell as sweet --"Romeo and Juliet...
...attract and retain industry, politicians gave away valuable land, tax abatements, municipal water, road improvements and exemptions from environmental protections. The paper mill smelled like rotten eggs, and the menhaden plant reeked of rotten fish, but the men who worked there would shrug and say, "All I smell...
What the program lacked was intuition--the ability to set traps, hatch plots, smell danger and generally enact the violent and paranoid predator from which the human race evolved and to which all great chess players return. What's left is playing percentages. Deep Blue refused to follow a strategy it recognized as a likely loser, even one that any decent grand master could see offered the best chances for victory due to, say, a blunder by a rattled foe. The machine just didn...
...anteroom where visitors take off their shoes and socks and a U-shaped main room filled with six tons of talcum powder. A single candle placed around the corner from the entrance provides the only light in the dark, dusty chamber, which is filled with the bitter smell of natural gas. Although the work's title warns of an impending explosion, made plausible given the smell, exposed flame and ankle-deep powder covering the floor, the piece seems unable to provoke anxiety in its visitors. It's just too sexy...
...traces around the room, Meireles appeals to all of our senses but taste. Yet it is somehow impossible to find an underlying grammar to order our perceptions. Although his materials seem related to combustion (the talc could double as gunpowder or ash), they are somehow irreconcilable. Candles don't smell like gas and neither they nor pure gas fires produce ash. Where is the wood, or the warm smell of gunpowder? In the end, Meireles leaves us not with easy equivalencies, but heightened perception through the uncanny juxtaposition of carefully chosen stimuli...