Word: wafts
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...meal nightmare come to life. (Sample quote: "It's like taking the Pepsi Challenge, but having the ladies be the actual soft drink.") But more depressing were the Tempters/tresses, who were marched in like breeding cattle and barely introduced before going off to the resort compounds where they would waft their pheromones toward the Temptees. A sexy reality show is not working if it brings Kurt Vonnegut to mind; all I could think of were the humans locked in an alien breeding cage in "Slaughterhouse-Five...
...setting over the luxury resorts of Kona, on Hawaii's Big Island. Warm tropical breezes waft lazily through the palms. Honeymooning couples sip mai tais by the pool as waves break gently on white sand...
...Sather's famous Scandinavian cinnamon buns appear regularly on the breakfast tray, bottles of Goose Island beer cool in the fridge, and Chicago-style blues, jazz and Irish music waft through the house. One almost expects to see Cubs, Bears and Bulls out in the garden, landscaped with indigenous flowers by the Chicago Botanical Garden...
Walk through Fantasy's four floors of office space in downtown Honolulu--a city chosen for its almost equidistance between Hollywood and Tokyo--and you'll see sleep-deprived animators getting strands of our heroine Aki's hair to waft just so, or watching endless video loops of voice talents James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Ming-Na and Ving Rhames trying to make their characters' lips move in exactly the same...
Gates, as it turned out last Friday, was well pleased with his buffet. He was able to waft the polished X-boxes under the noses of games developers at a conference in San Jose, Calif., just long enough to whet their appetites. Not that he needs to be worried about getting anyone's attention. These X-boxes are prototypes, two generations and 18 months away from anything you might see on store shelves. But when the world's largest software company, currently duking it out with the government for its very survival, starts building a video-games console, notice will...