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...Museum of Science's 20,000 sq. ft. multi-level floor area allows spacious presentation of participatory displays interspersed among the many artifacts. Visitors have the opportunity to smell an array of herbal medicines, test their ability to read Chinese pictographs, pump water with a dragon-bone irrigation pump, and try the famous Tai Ji Quan exercises...

Author: By Joan H.M. Hsiao, | Title: 7,000 Years Ahead of Civilization | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...Maybe it's a farewell supper -- you'll see soon enough," one guard told his prisoners. As the group was departing, the hotel staff handed out orange roses. "I want you guys to know that sometimes in life you have to take time out to smell the roses," said Hostage Jerome Barczak as he sniffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dinner with the Hostages | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...exchange she got New York City's mean streets ("a terrible sight, all that garbage"), its Augean subway ("so loud and dirty"). Davidovich quickly fled to the apartment in Kew Gardens ("quiet, with trees and a fresh smell"). Perhaps the hardest thing to bear was her professional anonymity, the necessity of starting a career over again. "It was very difficult," remembers Davidovich, whose still limited command of English requires her to use an interpreter. "I was very famous in the Soviet Union. I had my public. I did not know if it would be good for me in the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianist Bella Davidovich: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...into the U.S. But it has drawn such a diverse Latin population that the Spanish language alone is no guide as to what kind of neighborhood a visitor has wandered into. Says Dem ocratic Ward Committeeman Jesus Garcia: "You can tell where you are from the sounds and the smell of the cooking. In Mexican areas people are doing the taco thing with beans and rice; in Puerto Rican areas it's roast pork and fried rice. If you walk around Pilsen (a Mexican enclave) you'll hear mariachi music; in (Puerto Rican) Humboldt Park you'll hear salsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hispanics a Melding of Cultures | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Kenan is a drunken academic past his prime--his office is said to smell of urine and sex--who surpasses any picture of the worst fate of old tenured professors. Reeves's juicy portrayal of Kenan may feed many a Cantabridgian imagination, particularly the Harvard faculty gossip-minded...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel and Cecil D. Quillen, S | Title: Academia's Angst | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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