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...chance to stop and smell the rosesthis week, be sure to think a kind thought for PegMcAdams. She's been hired to water the 6000flowers now gracing Harvard Yard...
Lyndon Johnson could smell trouble coming a year away. Then he would tell one of his favorite yarns from the Texas hill country about the Army recruiter who went out to scare up some new boys during World War II. He found one big fellow, pronounced him physically fit and submitted him to the mental test...
...machine. Its architecture would not be the old cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode had to be slaughtered. "Kill the moonlight!" one futurist manifesto exclaimed. Whatever lingered from the 1890s -- symbolism, impressionism, the cults of nuance and nostalgia, of the Arcadian countryside or the introverted personality...
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN on the island of St. Nicholas and it's not the smell of oil-covered flesh frying in the tropical sun. It's not even the evil machinations of several fatcats planning on buying these unspoiled Caribbean beaches to build their dream highrise resort. What's rotten here is the acting, script and theme all mixed up in a noxious concoction of a movie...
...with the head gnomes of Wall Street, Salomon Brothers. In the late '60s, Stockman, like many WASPs of his time, was in hiding from the Vietnam war. A self-professed leftie, Stockman chose the Harvard Divinity School as his hideout, but he soon fell under the sway of the smell of power...