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...tide, as the crowded Bostonians looked across the Bay, newly bounded by dam they probably could not help but envision dry, rent-producing land. The smell of the mudflats was even more compelling. In 1849 the Boston Board of Health declared that the Back Bay was positively unsanitary. A group called the Commissioners on the Back Bay was formed by a Commonwealth commission to study the area. They suggested that it be filled in. They produced a hand-some design for the new land, calling for four broad avenues intersected by smaller cross streets, but the state appropriated no money...
...time for the punks to appear, but the train rollicked on peacefully. At Park Station the Cambridge couples began to fill the car, back from the movies, from dancing, from dining out. By the time we reached Harvard Square the train was quite full. The station's usual urine smell was mixed with marijuana and perfume, it being Saturday night...
Ambler shares some of his hero's flaws, and he is cynical enough to know it. Obviously he is much too cynical. There are some elements of imperial Britain in his attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide...
...scratching the shirt, the wearer breaks the capsules and releases the fragrance. In the past 18 months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such odors as cod-liver oil, dill pickles and lamb chops. But Gall may soon run into formidable competition. The New York-based Smell This Shirt Co. is working hard to develop marijuana-scented...
...them, if necessary, through exercise or hormone treatment. Feminists are now exchanging home remedies all the way from lower back massage and raspberry leaf tea to taking calcium ("nature's tranquilizer," said Nutritionist Adelle Davis) before their periods. Some ardent feminists are even urging women friends to examine, smell and taste their own menstrual blood as a way of overcoming traditional attitudes toward menstruation. Others are promoting menstrual extraction-a risky suction procedure-to avoid days of bleeding...