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Other visitors to the bakery are more ordinary,Castro says. "Once in a while a police officerwill come by. A student will smell the baking orhear the radio, and come by to see what's goingon. I show them around. Once in a while they'llask for cookies or brownies to take back to theroom," he says...
...These fantasies seldom lead to anything but trouble and unexpected consequences. Gran Catchprice's desire to destroy what she and her late husband have built seems understandable, given her original expectations: "The only thing she had ever wanted was a flower farm, but what she got instead was the smell of rubber radiator hoses, fan belts, oil, grease, petrol vapor, cash flows, overdrafts and customers whose bills ran 90, 120 days past due. It was this she could not stand -- she did it to herself...
...more than grant one another their mutual irredeemability, the dignity of their otherness. Screenwriter Brian Moore, adapting his novel, avoids anachronistic political correctness, and director Bruce Beresford refuses melodramatic imposition -- no dancing with wolves for them. This magnificently austere epic makes us too feel (and taste and smell) that otherness, the discomfiting strangeness of these lives, the authentic tragedy of their collision...
...really think that? Maybe you're right. I may be in the minority. I just think the American people smell...
Gilligan says studies like these have shown how girls' behavior may be different from what was previously perceived as the norm for adolescents. They can "smell bullshit a mile away," says Elizabeth Debold, a fourth-year graduate student who has been involved in many of the Harvard Project's studies...