Word: smells
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...generations of Americans grew up with the ethereal smell of bubble-gum-bathed baseball cards. Lying side by side in such close quarters, the cards reeked of the gum (and couldn't have tasted much worse). Every winter, kids desperately awaited this unmistakable odor as a sure sign that spring had sprung, that baseball diamonds were green once again, that God was in heaven and all was right with the world...
RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE REFORMA DISTRICT OF Guadalajara, Mexico, had complained bitterly last Tuesday about the strong smell, like gasoline's, that was wafting up from the sewers. City officials could not find any leak, however, and called off their investigation just hours before a series of explosions ripped up the streets Wednesday morning. More than 200 people died, and 15,000 others lost their homes...
...much smaller: A clown at ground level can throw an inflated beach ball to the top row, and the ring is just three and one-half elephant lengths across. The audience remains seated except during intermission. The air is well circulated, and there is a noticeable lack of circus smell. You are close enough to the action so that in slow moments you consider what percentage of the ticket price goes for liability insurance. With the lights lowered, you share with the performers a living-room intimacy...
Coming from her, I thought the idea was pretty weird, but I didn't tell her so. I squinted up at the advertisement and thought about sticky cotton candy fingers, crowds and the smell of elephants...
...have a rotten time. Five years ago, when Disney executives announced plans for the park at a ceremony in front of the Paris Bourse, they were pelted with eggs and tomatoes. Where their children (who buy 10 million copies of Le Journal de Mickey) see a mouse, French intellectuals smell a rat. They called the project "Euro Disgrace," "Euro Dismal," "a cultural Chernobyl...