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...turned a corner, and the whole mass of bodies came into view. The smell was overpowering, the sight unworldly. There were no marks of violence, no blood. Only a few bodies showed the gruesome signs of cyanide rictus. Outside there were three dead dogs, poisoned. Down the road in a large cage was 'Mr. Muggs,' the commune's pet gorilla. He had been shot. In a tree-shaded area was Jones' home, a three-room bungalow. Bodies were scattered through all three rooms, some on beds, others on the floor. The quiet was broken only by the meowing...
...locale is an African state called Kambawe, autocratically ruled by President Mageeba (Olu Jacobs), an educated charmer and a closet savage. When Mageeba's regime is threatened by rebels, the world's newsmen smell blood...
...Pleasant Valley High is already in place, alternating Sousa with the theme from Rocky, while cheerleaders flash blue and white pompoms. Five candidates for Pleasant Valley Homecoming Queen wait with feigned casualness in a special section, shyly grinning escorts at their sides. Just as it should be, the smell of burning leaves hangs in the cool...
...know some wonderful part will come," she announces with all the awed conviction of a child who knows that Santa will come for Christmas. Her anticipation is boundless when she begins to read a new script--"even the mimeographed sheets smell good." The dark eyes dance; one suddenly sees the little six-year-old who danced in her nightgown before that mirror...
...submitted to a kindergarten interview session, during which he told one mite of his upcoming presidency: "I won't enjoy it at all. I promise you that." In what was intended as a jocular reference to his past service in the cavalry, Figueiredo allowed that he preferred "the smell of horses to the smell of people." He was dismayed when the remark was headlined across Brazil...