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...bold step for Woody not to be a hero." This, according to another frequent co-star and pal, Tony Roberts, is part of his character. "He seems to strive for some kind of excellence for himself in what he does that keeps him from anything that might smell of smugness...
...sell anything if you had the money." Blumenthal lived from starvation job to starvation job. He dragged bodies off the streets after the U.S. air raids during the war. He peddled huge sausages door to door. "You were always hungry. Carrying those bags full of sausages. The smell! It was all you could do to keep from grabbing one, but one bite...
...example, if I smell Chanel No. 5, I'm attracted," he added...
...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
...smell it in the air yesterday? I mean, here it is, only February, and you've been trying to put it out of your mind for at least a couple more weeks (for the sake of the NBA), but it stared you right in the nostrils...