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...profundity. Yet Greene's is a worldly wisdom that is never fully-earned. It is a posture of knowing pessimism that we are expected to take as an a priori supposition, and which Greene keeps us from questioning too deeply with his fleeting, almost cinematic prose; he gives a whiff of a deep thought and then moves quickly to another scene, another shot, before we have time to look for the source of the scent. In the place of any real character development. Greene peppers his narrative with the kind of jaded aphorisms that sound wise and deep when most...
When the gas spread across nearby Route 231, it looked at first like fog to Richard Kuhn, who was driving home to New York from a skindiving vacation in Florida. Then his van stalled and he got a whiff of the searing vapor. Kuhn strapped on his scuba air tank and walked out of the death cloud to safety. Another motorist, Donald Sellers of Tallahassee, a veteran of Army chemical-warfare training, recognized the gas as chlorine and told his wife to get to the floor of the car, where there was still breathable air. "We were both vomiting...
...whiff of dissent clouds a state visit
Offhand Humor. The plot is as authentic and insubstantial as a whiff of marijuana (Screenwriter Barren is an alumnus of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper). One of the reporters cashes in on his underground experiences by selling a book. A beginner tries to expose a local record bootlegger. Lovers climb in and out of various beds. The new publisher takes over; one staffer is fired; another quits. The paper goes...
There is an engagingly sinister quality about Trudeau's sharp features, just the faint whiff of Mephistopheles presiding over a steaming cauldron. But he was mellow that day. Jimmy Carter had asked Trudeau to advise him as he moved into the murky world of international politics. "Now he's asked you and 215 million Americans," chortled a guest. Trudeau chuckled. Yes, Carter might have been trying to flatter him. That was often done in this business. But Trudeau's conclusion was that Carter was sincere. Carter, insisted the Prime Minister, was a man obviously at ease with...