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Here again, the biographies prove enlightening, for they emphasize the women's struggles to learn and achieve recognition in a craft, as well as the sweet smell of their success; they record the traumas as well as the blessings that haunt the artistic soul. Biographer Frederick Sweet, for instance, describes the decade of apprenticeship which Mary Cassatt had to endure before Degas asked her to exhibit with the Impressionists. Later, Sweet adds how Cassatt's work deteriorated as she grew blind near the end of her life, and then, a bit ungenerously, how "friends from America found her querulous...
...Wallace for President Headquarters is in a little prefab shed lost in the sprawl beside hot, roaring highway 401 South, in front of a gas station, next to "The Pork Palace"--"Old-fashioned pit-cooked barbeque"--and just down the road from the Purina Feeds elevators. The sickly, rural smell of the feeds mixes with the pork smell and the hydrocarbons and the hot dust that blow into the one-room headquarters. Inside, there is a five-foot high, very grainy litho of Wallace with about half a smile, and on a card-table there are the usual bumper stickers...
...know the nauseous smell of rotten shrimp paste...
...city's defenders buried in a mass grave 350 soldiers who had been killed during the siege. "During the first week we just stacked up the bodies, 60 or 70 to a pile," said a U.S. adviser who had helicoptered in and out of town. "But eventually the smell just...
...back country. On the way, the former sheriff who had agreed to produce an authentic moonshiner spoke with real pride of the man's wares. "His whisky's good stuff-crystal clear," he said. "Stinks to high heaven, but if you can get past the smell, it'll set you on your head or butt faster 'n he'd blow your innards out for smiling courtin'-like at his daughters. When I was high sheriff, I put the ax to at least 300 stills, but I never did his, he bein...