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...discomfort. Tigger sewed, cooked, tended to animals routinely: there is a wonderfully precise description of how to sit a hen and how to candle an egg. The remnant of civilized life that every woman sought was a bolt of Liberty fabric. Lessing apparently has a formidable sense of smell. Before easy dry cleaning, everybody's clothes smelled bad. Nuns -- she attended a convent school for a while -- smelled even worse...
...Exposure to paint thinners and other solvents may cause a temporary loss of smell, memory or color vision as well as problems with maintaining balance. In some cases the toxic effects on the liver and kidneys are permanent, even after the offending solvents have been removed...
...TIME said they have suffered for years from the effects of petroleum pollution. "The river used to have lots of fish," said Vyacheslava Topova, who lives in Kolva, a river town in the region. "Now there are hardly any fish at all, and when we cook them, they smell bad. People here survive, but they are really worried about the future." This spill may be cleaned up by spring, as Bibikov insists. But unless Russia overhauls its aging, corroding pipelines, they will keep springing leaks and spoiling the landscape...
Quite a different sort of film made by Lancaster's company was the brilliantly brutal Sweet Smell of Success. Lancaster's J.J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-type Broadway columnist with horn-rimmed glasses and an accountant's haircut, gets relatively little screen time; yet he dominates the cynical scenario as surely as Dracula does any vampire movie. Lancaster knew he needn't raise his voice to exude pestilence. There is capital punishment in his whisper, "You're dead, son. Get yourself buried...
...newer products invented by the financial-services industry, whose explosive growth is traced in Joseph Nocera's new book, A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. Words like product and industry are intended to give "financial services" the smell of a factory, where real things are made...