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Housing for other oil workers is a miserable patchwork, almost as if patterned on the primitive mud huts of the Iranian countryside. Open sewers flank the area, while dogs nose their way through mounds of exposed garbage. The smell of filth permeates the air. The only sign of 20th century amenities is a spate of television aerials atop most of the homes. "They tried to buy us with television," says one of the local strike leaders, who would identify himself only with the nom de guerre Hossein. "My father used to tell us about this land with tears...
...second wife's mother, who lived with the couple, remembers often complaining of a foul smell in the house, "like dead rats." Gacy's ex-wife admits, "I think now, if there were murders, some must have taken place when I was in that house." Martin Zielinski, a friend, recalls being puzzled when Gacy once told him, "I do a lot of rotten, horrible things, but I do a lot of good things...
Judge Robert Ward noted that there were significant similarities between the two books. In The African, for example, Courlander described the hunter: "He must hear what the farmer cannot hear. He must smell what others cannot smell ... his eyes must pierce the darkness." In Roots, Haley wrote: "He must hear what others cannot, smell what others cannot. He must see through the darkness." Courlander cited 81 such passages. Haley's defense: during the years he wrote Roots, students and others who listened to his lectures often handed him notes and research without citing the sources...
...running a business that is firmly based on psychology and fashion. He gossips delightedly about a competing company's "nose" (perfume tester) who, he insists, has hardly any sense of smell at all, and he is wryly amused by the copycat nature of the industry. Any new shade or fragrance that looks salable will almost instantly spur development of three or four nearly identical competing products. Says Bergerac: "Maybe that is one definition of creativity." He denies that Revlon stoops to any industrial espionage, though he believes competitors do and suspects that such shenanigans are inefficient anyway. More than once...
...Bridge Too Far. Margot Kidder looks like a cute Lois Lane, and they say Christopher Reeve really flies well, and the producers have spent more money so far on this film and its sequel (Variety says 60 million) than on any other, but I don't know--I smell Kong...