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Suzy soon gets an acrid whiff of reality when a new-found girl friend at the factory finds herself pregnant. The girl nearly dies at the hands of a drunken abortionist, then recovers and gets engaged to the boy responsible for her trouble. The night of their engagement party, he is knocked off his motorcycle by a lorry and dies in the street; a tragedy has its echo in Kendall's life when her own lover steals a car for their vacation and gets sent down for six months. "I'd much rather have taken...
...permits? Oh, but it's obscene is it? Who are you kidding? Do you mean those colorful four letter words in the center-fold a couple of weeks ago? How long has it been since you've been into any of the newspaper stores around here and taken a whiff of the girlie magazines, the lesbian photo-replays, the glossy paper-back business? Why are they still being sold if Avatar is supposed to be obscene? Oh that's it, there is a lot of money tied up in the glossies and there are powerful publishing tycoons behind them...
...Whiff of Grape...
Other over-interpreters include the listeners who-like literary critics dissecting a sonnet-ferret out indirect references in Beatle lyrics and persist in catching a whiff of drugs in such innocuous songs as Yellow Submarine. And there is still the hardy minority that insists on viewing the Beatles as the great put-on of the century...
...lord of the manor himself, who will, in the fashion of a hard-pressed British peer, show off the ten rooms, five baths and four fireplaces that make up his new pad, and take them for a stroll down Farkleberry Trail. For no extra charge, visitors also get a whiff of a fragrant political issue in the making...