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...spinning his chair in circles. Later, in a restaurant, a waiter passed the cork from a newly opened bottle of wine under Stephen's nose. The computer beeped, and the voice proclaimed, "Very good." Hawking was just being polite; the tracheostomy also deprived him of his sense of smell. Says Indian-born Amarjit Chohan, one of Stephen's nurses: "There is an aura around him, a spiritual atmosphere. He is going to end up as a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN HAWKING: Roaming the Cosmos | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...close friend, said he undertook the mission for Austria's sake. Accompanied by Ralph Scheide, a Waldheim aide and co- author of the white paper, Molden called the Austrian President the victim of a smear campaign. "If you pour two gallons of manure over somebody, he will smell," Molden said, "and then you can say that he stinks." Scheide argued that the case against Waldheim has dwindled to charges that he knew of Nazi atrocities. "Of course he knew," Scheide conceded. "So did everyone else." Such arguments did not impress the Justice Department, which last year barred Waldheim from entering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Trapped in the Eye of the Storm | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility: "It's coffee in the pot and a dirty sugar spoon/ it's towels on the floor of a dirty bathroom/ and a smell like me and a smell like you/ all mixed together in a Sleazy Street stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleazy Street AFOOT IN A FIELD OF MEN | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...foul," Brown said. "It took them more than a day so the smell seemed to gather in intensity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drainpipe Clogs, Spewing Sewer Water Over Eliot-H | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

HARVARD. The very name evokes images of brick buildings, libraries stuffed to the brim with books and four years of study in wood-panneled rooms with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting from all the professorial types gathered around campus...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: What Do I Know? | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

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