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...Real Stinker. In its final hours, the debate produced sparks. The day before the ratification vote, dissenting Senators sought to tie a spate of qualifications to the pact-any one of which could have put the whammy on the whole works. "If reservations are attached to the treaty," New York Republican Jacob Javits had warned, "it will mar for the world and all the nations which are signing the treaty the statesmanship which dedicated it in the first place...
...barred in case of armed conflict. Fulbright saw no need for it. "There's a lot of things we agree on that shouldn't be in this treaty," said he. "I suppose if we took a poll we'd all agree that Khrushchev is a stinker, but that doesn't mean we want to write that into the treaty...
...year. Most treatments seem worse than the ailments they aim to cure. Rising at dawn, the dedicated Kurgast gulps beakers of water whose mineral content-notably sodium chloride, sulphur and iron-makes it smell like Bad Limburger; Marienbad's most famed spring is proudly called The Stinker, and it tastes like well rusted steel wool. The rest of the day they spend soaking, sipping, wading and inhaling as if their lives depended on it-and many believe they...
...films. De Laurentiis served a lighthearted war, demobilized himself as soon as the Americans landed, and went back to making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame by marrying Sophia Loren) broke into the U.S. market with a stinker called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another Oscar. In a non-Shakespearean epic called The Tempest, he transformed eleven words of Pushkin...
...only to see and hear but also to smell what is happening on the screen. The process is called AromaRama* ("You must breathe it to believe it"), and it could be guaranteed, on the basis of its first showing, to turn even a good movie into something of a stinker...