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...dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like a singed chicken. At first, I didn't know what was happening. Then I felt myself going pffft...
...last three Godkin lecturers, further implies that Harvard "is more concerned with repairing damaged careers than in the more prosaic task of pursuing and disseminating the truth." In judging the University's selection of its guest lecturers, Newsweek's analyst has suggested that "Harvard is haunted by the faint smell of witches burned centuries ago and is obsessed by the belief that the public is always wrong...
...Hogarth, played by Mickey Rooney as if the part were fitted to him in Savile Row, is the man who gives the chuckle to TV's 40,000,000 chuckleheads, but to those who know him he is a "lumbering pachyderm with the face of a pig, the smell of a skunk, the appetite of a tomcat and the voice of Joe Miller." He has a tapeworm hunger for the attention, laughter and love of 40 million people, an insatiable craving to receive all the gifts he himself is incapable of giving...
Athletes, too, are a simple lot. Their curses, stompings, and undershirts all smell of warmth and good-fellowship. Also, their friends can usually procure blonde and chatty dates on a moment's notice...
Much of the spirit behind William S. White's attempt to describe the essence of the often vexingly incomprehensible United States Senate is revealed in a remark he quotes, made by Lyndon Johnson. "If you can't smell a feeling, you are no kind of a politician." Neither, one senses, does Mr. White feel you're much of a reporter unless you can do the same...