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...high rise, the hallways smell of urine, and blasts of grafitti blur the walls. Chinks of light pinpoint holes in the apartment doors. Mailboxes have been ripped from the wall, probably by thieves looking for checks...
...more than half of the devices (31 by week's end) have been detected and defused, largely as a result of stringent national security measures drawn up after last spring's bombing of the Old Bailey. Scotland Yard has advised people to smell envelopes for almond and marzipan odors characteristic of explosives, check for grease marks caused by sweating explosives, and look for unusual or irregular handwriting on packages. Stories on how to handle suspect mail have appeared in almost every British newspaper, and commuters disembarking at tube stops, train stations and bus stops have been deluged with...
...inside the building. Whenever rock groups are in residence, flocks of pubescent groupies fling themselves against the smudged glass doors, seeking a way to infiltrate the building. Says Security Chief Wells: "We have to be on constant alert for them, moving all the time, sometimes tracking them by smell, since they all have the odor of burning rope...
...notes how they destroyed the uniqueness of the moment, broadening experience but leveling it. Radio and television multiplied communication, but made it an increasingly private experience. Supermarkets offered the consumer an abundance of choice, and franchises the assurance of at least modest uniform quality, but the touch and smell of food became trapped in paperboard and plastic...
...intended to liberate the relevance of art. What has grown in the gap left by Dada's failed promise is not only the staunchness of the New Conservatives but also a dangerously pre-emptive sort of subjectivism in contemporary criticism. Here, the critic assumes that his job is to smell out the con. So what he likes he deems "real art," what he doesn't is "anti-art" or "non-art." But this means that when a certain critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good...