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...Joyce shifts from the guilt-ridden accuser of betrayal to the brute animal, form addressing his letters, "My darling little convent girl," to "My sweet naughty little fuckbird." The letters are not all too significant, although Joyce does make at least one rather bold assertion: That he could sniff out his wife's gases in a roomful of women emitting similarly odiferous noises...
Nine new constituents, even if they can't vote, are nothing to sniff at. That may explain why President Ford went straight to the side of Liberty, his pet golden retriever, after finishing his golf game last week. With First Lady Betty Ford and Daughter Susan in attendance, the 19-month-old family dog gave birth to five male and four female puppies. "She's a good mother," pronounced the President, and then promised one member of the litter to Michigan's Leader Dog School for the Blind and a second to White House Photographer David Kennerly...
...Rice doesn't exist except as a baseball player, save for his close friends and family. In the ballpark, though, loping out to the outfield, matching steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane...
Whooshing from airport to similar airport, jet travelers usually find the world a pretty homogeneous place. Theroux destroys this illusion. His often snail-like pace (one local in southern India makes 94 stops) gives him the not always pleasant chance to sniff out local differences. "The first condition of understanding a foreign country," T.S. Eliot once wrote, "is to smell it," and Theroux misses nothing, from the burned coal that permeates Indian train stations to the poisonous industrial fumes of Osaka...
...criminal underworld, the aristocratic thief outwits crushers (cops), noses (informers) and Establishment nibs to assemble the four keys needed to grab the gold. By subversion, bribery and tricks far dirtier than the king's men ever dreamed of, the ringleader and his scruffy accomplices come within a sniff of the swag, only to meet their greatest obstacle: an obscure law of physics...