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Trailing the visually dramatic T shirts by a nose are the Smellies shirts -scented with everything from pizza to burnt rubber. Microscopic capsules containing the odoriferous oils are embedded in the fabric; by scratching the shirt, the wearer breaks the capsules and releases the fragrance. In the past 18 months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such...
...retired to EI Cass Pacifica, the man who understood him best. So Thompson is holedup in Boulder Creek, listening to tapes of Jimmy Carter speeches and reading about himself in Doonesbury. Thompson was best in writing about thugs and goons, from San Bernadino's Hell's Angels and the burnt-out geeks of Las Vegas, to the inhabitants of the Oval Office. Covering Saigon at the time of NLF victory, when Nixon was gone, Thompson seemed trivial, almost offensive. At the same time the presidential tapes were revealing that H.E. and P. even talked like Thompson ("Take Pat Gray...
...from left to right, a tapering upper eyetooth which eroded a millimeter a year into the black pool of her gum socket, two long wedge-shaped frontals which overlapped like tightly crossed fingers...a lower incisor as yellow as sunshine off dusty grass, an El that resembled a squat, burnt-out matchstick, and a lonely lopsided masticator which jutted out between her lips even when they were closed...
...Never more should we have a burnt-out boiler," Hall said at the time of the machine installation in the basement of the Science Center. "Harvard is way ahead of the competition in this area...
...Billy Emper [Harvard's football captain] couldn't get all those valves turned on in time," Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday while reflecting on the Christmas vacation floods. "So we just got burnt...