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...1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
Skinner, an avid and now somewhat embarrassed environmentalist who did the indoor decorating job herself with a friend, says the mildly rancid smell of the paint got worse after it was applied during the Thanks-giving holidays...
...course, if one does decide to waste three hours to see this "tragedy," one should be aware of the quite appropriate stench of the theater. The only catharsis stemming from the hideous Moment to Moment occurred after the show, when this reviewer washed the Beacon Hill Playhouse smell out of her clothes...
...Scocca '93 is one of the students whohas discovered the bakery. A resident of G-entryin Eliot House, Scocca doesn't always smell thearoma of baking brownies, but he says there areother signs of the "secret" bakery below. "We didknow we had this wall that radiated all this heatfor no clear reason," he says...
...meantime, Kaplan insists he is not being manipulated by the Republican Party, breaking another journalistic rule by announcing that he's a Democrat. Above all, he argues for credibility by pointing to his credentials and intuition: "I think I know a story that has the ring of truth, the smell of truth, and I tell you this story has both...