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...been something else--say radiation released from a nuclear plant in the case of a meltdown--the damage would have been incalculable. Radiation would be much harder than toxic gas to combat--on Thursday, at least, workers had a clearly visible localized cloud. Those in danger could smell the gas, and there were comparatively safe places to flee, refuges that would be much harder to find in the event of radiation release. Thursday's accident demonstrated Boston's--and any other city's--vulnerability...
...effort is made to duplicate the real thing: actual forces clash by day and night, and umpires determine who would have killed whom. It is a natural subject for the cinema verite technique of Frederick Wiseman (Canal Zone, Titicut Follies), and the only thing lacking in Manoeuvre is the smell of commingled sweat and exhaust...
...swamp the downtown area, some of which is closed off to traffic, throughout the day, giving the city a liveliness foreign to anywhere in the United States. One of the largest communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...
...detect that our people are getting more excited as it comes down to the wire," Cook said, adding, "As the season progresses a lot of Kirkland people will begin to smell the Straus...
...when pressed lightly, the ampoule breaks, releasing the ardor-killing odor. One rape crisis expert frets that Rapel "lulls the user into a false sense of security." Perhaps, but another drawback has already been solved: each package comes with a container of a neutralizing fluid that quickly dissipates the smell...