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...parade of officials strapping on polygraphs would be a demeaning spectacle, both to voters at home and friends abroad. Any aides that balk, however, would appear to be hiding something. And should the Justice Department now turn down the FBI request and refuse to order the tests, it would smell of coverup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth Tests | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...mysteriously, a newborn will smile beatifically when a piece of cotton impregnated with banana essence is waved under its nose, and it will protest at the smell of rotten eggs. Other infant prejudices: vanilla (good), shrimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...entering his eighth year as Dean of Harvard College. Make no mistake--this guy is no headmaster-type who simply keeps "tabs" on what's happening to his charges. Granted, you won't see him behind the counter at the Union, but you'll certainly smell his powerful brew of logical ideas and hard-line methods for implementing them...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz and Gilbert Fuchsberg, S | Title: Who's In Charge Here? | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

...love the smell of Malamute in the morning!" With this glad cry, Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) mushes his dog sled through the snows of New England, eager for his climactic battle with an enemy who, like Donald, has surrendered to the fantasy that violent action, backed by deadly skills in the martial arts, is a necessity for survival in America today. Too bad he has to call time out in their gunfight because he brought the wrong bullets with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beleaguered Sanity Toughs It Out | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...smell good," Norman Bates murmurs softly to Mary, the pretty young woman with whom he is chastely sharing the old family mansion - the one just above and beyond the old family motel of blessedly spooky memory. What is the secret of her success in eliciting a near-normal sexual response out of Norman? A new Parisian scent? A wristlet of wild flowers? A walk in the spring rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Joke | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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