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...entertain her. He talked of the handicapped whom he had just been visiting; she discussed Sri Lanka's problems with drugs. When she spoke of the perfumed forests of her island country, he invited her to crush in her fingers a Martha Washington geranium on the table and smell the perfume it left behind. He went on, fascinating us all, with stories of his Hollywood days. He spoke of how he did not like the heaving and panting sex in the new movies-too explicit. He preferred the way Ernst Lubitsch had handled the subject, by hint and suggestion...
...close call. Oklahoma's James Jones, 45, chairs the House Budget Committee and has vigorously fought Reagan's hugely unbalanced budgets, offering alternatives of his own. Opposed by Frank Keating, 40, a former FBI agent and U.S. Attorney, Jones told his supporters about midnight that "I smell victory in the air." Still, he did not claim it, and Keating did not concede. But it appeared that Jones had survived...
...Meatballs II without offering any first feature to establish characters or situations. In the Bleeding Heart, the kids really walk and talk like kids, albeit somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary to unpopular opinion, explicit vomit scenes aren't cute...
...fiction, if fact is in short supply (Washington politics has been honored with its own seamy TV soap opera); and some vengeful pols, mostly Republicans who suffered for years through the aftermath of Watergate and delight in the chance to do a little Woodward-Bernsteining themselves, now that they smell a smoking Democratic...
...atmosphere at the WoodenBoat School is relaxed. Students spend their after-class hours playing softball and drinking enough beer to float a schooner. But before that, they put in solid workdays in a shop redolent with the smell of fresh-cut cedar. Students pick up their tools by 8 each morning and, except for an hour-long lunch break, do not put them away until after 4 each afternoon. No one complains about the hours. "I love it; it gives me such a sense of satisfaction," says Cullen. "When I fitted my first plank, I felt like singing the Marseillaise...