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Sounds on the Right. First sign of Joan's unusual qualities, they note, came at 12½, when she began to have "mixed sensations of sight and sound, coming from her right, together with touch and smell . . . The sensations were generally accompanied by a bright light." Modern neurology attributes such symptoms to disease in the brain's temporal lobe, close to the sphenoid bone, where it may affect the nerves for several senses...
...Budding Showman Mike Todd Jr., 29, announced that he will produce next year's smelliest movie (The Scent of Mystery), using the Smell-O-Visiqn-process developed by a Swiss chemist under contract to the late Mike Todd Sr. Nearest yet to the "feelie" film envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (see BOOKS), the process is triggered by soundtrack blips, which release odors through a maze of pipes to the audience-30 odors in 90 minutes for The Scent of Mystery, including flowers, roasting chestnuts, brandy, coffee, shoe polish (the villain will be trapped by smell clues...
...great Gygian load, the excrescence of the social organism of Concord, will be there and it certainly can't be wished away. The dilemma arises: should the citizens unload their perpetual clutter within the sight and smell of their progeny, making them conscious early of the great and ineluctable junk that fills the world? Or should the youth be saved, and instead men's trash fill smooth the rugged face of old New England tradition...
...week long, the aromatic smell of in cense filled the churches of Rome. Blackedged posters proclaiming the death of Pope Pius XII covered the walls of the city, and everywhere, among the poor and the prosperous, men were wearing black armbands and women black veils. But even as the hammers rang...
...characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...