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Most of the rooms in the museum smell of moth balls, alcohol and dust. By simply unlocking a cabinet, and pulling out one of the drawers, students can confront face to face a giant harpy eagle which eats 30 pound mammals...
...bench in the empty school auditorium. Lena suddenly reaches down to touch her leg, noticing that she has ripped her stocking. Looking at Madeline's bare legs she quips, "You're bare-legged." Madeline explains that she is wearing suntan lotion, and rubs her leg, asking Lena to smell her hand. In this first meeting of two soon to be friends the viewer wonders why Kury has chosen to initiate their friendship with such a decisively physical scene...
...athletes' quarters in Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors of various communal rumpus rooms (chess, billiards, video games, television, dancing) give the area a fragrance to compete with the common smell of burning brown coal permeating the countryside. At the sight of one game in particular, Americans are inclined to smile: a hockey machine worked by levers, with little U.S.A. men on one side and Soviets on the other. It does not take dinars or rubles, only quarters. Political hockey has been...
...happens so suddenly and perceptibly that it suggests a line drawn across a map: at a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mexico. At the scent of it, one woman feels her blood turn "as though the moon had swayed it." For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's elegantly written novel, her first in twelve years, the salt line divides past and present, memory and desire, placidity and jeopardy. Crossing it brings everyone into the swirling orbit of the book's protagonist, Arnie Carrington. Arnie...
...entrepreneurs, tired from a day trying to raise money, punch away at their calculators. Occasionally the coach passengers glimpse a bright future ahead. Well before Zitel, a small computer-memory company, went public last month, President Robert Welch was overheard confiding to a colleague on a flight, "I can smell the Ferrari...