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...take a whiff of tomorrow's TV. You're unwinding with, say, a lively cooking show hosted by a hyperactive Louisianian. As you chat online with other home cooks and download a recipe (with click-to-buy ingredients list, compiled in consultation with your e-frigerator), your TV points out that your host's handsome, copper saute pan is 25% off at Williams-Sonoma. Meanwhile, as the dish comes to a tantalizing simmer--at about 6:45 p.m., just when your family of four usually gets serious about ordering takeout--the TV suggests clicking to order etouffee (and nonspicy chicken...
...this straight: The best way to undermine repressive communist states is to trade with them, allowing their people that heady whiff of freedom that floats aromatically off a Big Mac, forcing their governments to lift the economic shackles and unleash an avalanche of entrepreneurial creativity that makes nonsense of Marxism. Well, yes, and no - if you're Trent Lott, that is. According to the Senate Majority Leader and other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which...
...Simply put, hockey is not an easy sport to love. But these obstacles only inflame our passion for the game. We gladly travel long distances, throw out other commitments, just for one whiff of the ice. We live for the slow-motion breakaway, skating in all alone on the net, switching from forehand to backhand to forehand, sliding the puck neatly between the goalie’s legs. In an empty arena, no fans cheer, but in our heads it’s a Cup-winning goal, certain to be immortalized in the highlight reels...
...Mary Beth Fisher, is indeed a victim, but also a strong, fallible, fully realized character. As the terror mounts, she is forced to call the police, move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa offers the expected pat of sympathy--"Thank you for telling me. I know that was hard to do." Then she fires...
...Behind the locked door lies the New Frontier, a frontier that tickles the nose with "a whiff of history," as another guest put it. The door opens to a quaint sitting room, bedroom, kitchenette and bathroom while books by and about the President overflow the bookshelf and framed photos and newspaper clippings deck the walls. Here, a snapshot of the swimming team; there, JFK attending the Harvard-Columbia football game in 1963; upon the bedroom door, the 1940 University Class Day Program announcing all the swingin' graduation activities. "There's a flavor to it," says Catherine L. McLaughlin, deputy director...