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...getting exiled to a desert outpost and being sodomized (more than once) by the Pharaoh. These events are punctuated by various hexes and incantations, long processions to one temple or another, descriptions of statues and animals and peasants and eunuchs (many eunuchs) and life in the seraglio and the smell of different perfumes and incenses and precious stones and robes and linens...
When CBS duly surrendered the study last week, Westmoreland's lawyers termed the document "devastating," while CBS shrugged it off as consistent with the original Sauter memo. "They were hoping to find a smoking gun," said Sauter. "There isn't even the smell of cordite...
...brilliant defense lawyer from South Africa. After Broughton was acquitted of the murder, he received a cable from the Earl of Carnarvon and Montgomery (HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING A NECK CLEVERLY), and was invited to recuperate from the trial at the palace of the Maharajah of Jhopur. Still, the smell persisted. Thirty years after the crime, Fox persuaded three people to talk about the murder confessions Broughton had made to them before he took a fatal dose of morphine in 1942, 17 months after his acquittal...
...Shared or not, that fundamentalist faith gives Jerry Lee's music, even to a heathen, the unique power of sin. No smart talk or sidestepping for him. This is the devil's music, and Jerry Lee Lewis plays it with the aplomb of a peer. He may smell damnation himself, but that unholy gift of his has surely secured him a place in rock-'n'-roll heaven. Right up there in the dark. At the end of the road...
...stories. Pancake deftly integrates meaning and feeling into physical sensations and images. At one point Colley listens to a real estate agent convincing his mother to sell the farm. Just returned from hunting turtle in one of the creeks on his land. He tells us that the smell of turtle has soaked between his fingers and that "it's the same smell as the pools. "We see that the land and nature of his home have soaked too deeply into his being for him to leave easily...