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...over the town. Jim Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire department. We didn't know what it was." It is a strange, foul odor, not unlike the stench from a sodden box of cat litter. It reminds many of the women of home-permanent solution. Karen Wickham, who teaches at the town's elementary school, thinks the smell is like "fecal matter, but also sweet and fruity," and Mary Lou Smith detects an onion aroma. "What...
Battered and dazed, Mexico City began the long struggle back from chaos last week. In the center of the world's biggest megalopolis, where the country's worst earthquake in decades had wreaked its most severe devastation, the stench of death hung over piles of rubble. Squads of masked and helmeted rescue workers scrambled desperately, looking for--and sometimes finding --sparks of life in a jumble of concrete and steel debris. There were moments of celebration as the squads retrieved a succession of newborn infants after days of burial. There were also 50 seconds of panic late in the week...
...from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence of stench, but not without some dissension. Jasper, demanding cash that Alice does not have, lashes out: "While you play house and gardens, pouring money away on rubbish, the Cause has to suffer, do without...
Apartheid is the ineradicable stench in the air of their mean home, but their squabble for power within those walls is neither didactic nor particularly political. The wry, absurdist humor recalls Beckett, and the inchoate sense of menace parallels Pinter. The candor of the final confessional between the brothers is Fugard's own. At Yale, as in the original, Fugard has directed and plays the half-derelict, fair-skinned brother. At the outset he seems fragile, ineffectual, on the border of madness. As the narrative focuses on the implications of his relative whiteness, he gathers strength and wisdom. Zakes Mokae...
...during the Black Death in the 14th century, they sang "Ring around a rosie!" That meant they saw a ring on the skin around a red spot that marked the onset of the Black Death. "A pocket full of posies" meant the flowers one carried to mask the ambient stench. The ditty ended in apocalypse: "All fall down." The Black Death eventually took off half the population of Europe...