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...call me Octopussy," the woman murmured. She was, of course, gorgeous, her thin yet voluptuous body sheathed in a simple, expensive dress. Bond could sniff the perfume of her danger the moment they met. From there to bed had been the matter of a few glances between professionals, and the act itself had been high sport, the Wimbledon finals of sex. Now the match was over, and Bond, instead of steeling himself for a stray tarantula under the sheets, found himself ruminating. Was she the good woman or the bad one? In each of his assignments, it seemed, there...
...fashion of the '80s is not to wait past May to sniff that none of these goats is Secretariat. It is quite enough to be Sunny's Halo...
...Fleet Street, other editors pounced on Stern and the rival Sunday Times with a vengeance that in this instance seemed justified. "It was the day the thunder of the Times turned into a whimper and the Sunday Times was forced to sniff the stench of self-deceit," crowed the Daily Express. Its story accused "the executives" of Stern and the Sunday Times of having committed "the biggest journalistic blunder for years...
...Mailer: "I want to see how much of my head is left." It has been years since he has subjected himself to such a long haul of academic rigors. At each session, he tries to sniff out potential enemies and attackers; he chiefly scents respect and even reverence. This is a fairly new phenomenon in Mailer's tempestuous performing life, and it seems to puzzle him. Early in the week, he offers to pay $5 for the rudest question he is asked. At the end, he judges none worthy of the award. Fireworks are predicted when he visits...
...three-mile run, and his sex life sizzled. "I could be the macho man I always dreamed about." Soon he was spending $1,000 a week, snorting two grams a day with only minutes between "toots." "Even when you drive, you can pour a little sniff on your hand," he says. After a year of cocaine use, Trop discovered freebasing, and the social highs turned insidiously antisocial. "In the beginning, I felt I was communicating with God," he says with a wry smile...