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...stage hand in the performance to indicate Richards’ possession of servants. In a lighter moment, Smith, as English and aesthetics professor Elaine Scarry, plucked a piece of sage from grass surrounding the stage and handed it to an audience member to roll between her fingers and smell, asking, “Good, right?” At times, Smith assumed the position of the interviewer in order to create different kinds of portraits, and at other times her presence as an actor became especially conspicuous, as when she impersonated Henriette Mutigwarba, a Rwandan genocide survivor. Smith as Mutigwarba...
...appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene. It's a phenomenon well-known among homicide detectives and soldiers...
...with leafless, saltwater-poisoned trees, battered fences hung with soggy towels, shattered windows, and front yards filled with piles of wet carpet, soaked clothes, moldy pots and pans, beach chairs and books, all water-laden, useless, even dangerous from soaking in the diseased stew, and hung about with the smell of decay. Perhaps 20,000 households share this circumstance, according to Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas...
When you're on the lookout for lemurs - the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar - it helps to have good eyes (lemurs are small), sharp ears (they rustle the trees) and a keen nose (they have an unmistakable smell...
...Brown said. To counter this, he held pseudo-elections for positions on the GSC Executive Board, GSC Committees, and University committees, ranging from the Harvard College Safety Committee to the FAS Library Committee. But the energy in the room was lukewarm, dampened by the thick smell of pineapple pizza. “You just all elected Sarah,” Brown said after another bout of silence in response to a proposed candidate. “See how easy that worked!” Harvard Law School student Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a former member...