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...past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some also come with built-in smell...
...women and 37 of their husbands who gathered in the banquet room of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel did their best to ignore what they insisted was the reek of whisky seeping through the glass doors from the men's bar on one side and the smell of champagne from the elegant Garden Court on the other. Loud and often, they drowned out the sound of what they feared was drunken babbling by raising their voices in song...
...strong smell of Limburger has inspired many a moldy joke, but the news of Limburger last week was a serious and hopeful matter. The moldy-looking coating of the cheese, a young scientist reports, contains a potent antibiotic that kills many kinds of microbes and has probably saved a lot of lives...
Public Hearing, Private Gain. Last week, as the State Investigations Commission opened the first round of public hearings on its 2½-year inquiry into the $100 million-a-year school building program, the smell of skulduggery was unmistakable. The former chief of the construction program said that he had accepted cameras, rare wines, steaks and cash ("in the spirit of Christmas giving"), but insisted that no one had ever tried to bribe him. An assistant supervisor was accused of charging a 5% "commission" to contractors to speed up profitable contract revisions. Two high Board of Education officials testified that...
...visions to irrational fervor-but nearly all are glossed over. With hardly a suggestion of the poet who wrote A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, John Osborne concentrates on the crude-voiced Luther whose notable preoccupation with bodily functions produced the line: "If I break wind in Wittenberg, they smell it in Rome...