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...also smell its prey without breathing. When the snake's forked tongue flicks in and out, it conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
Carnival Atmosphere. But the biggest lure of the new supercenters is what Maryland's James Rouse, No. 1 shopping-center financial consultant, promoter and part-owner of Mondawmin, calls their "personal, informal, carnival atmosphere." Frequently screened from the sight, sound and smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects...
Each floor presented a new row of costumes lining the hallway until we reached the fifth floor. Inside a low ceilinged room there were baskets of shoes. Our costumes were arrayed along a clothes bar near a mirror. Everyone did their best to find something that didn't smell too old and that fairly approximated his bulk until four of us were dressed as herdsman, one as a cook, and others as villagers...
...Loving Sunsets." "I remember as a boy loving sunsets," said J.D.R. Jr. one day. "Every time I ride through the woods today the smell of the trees-particularly when a branch has just been cut and the sap is running-takes me back to my early impressions." Today the lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson...
...Merritt's friend, one Albert Shoemaker, has the uncanny accuracy of sentimentality and vernacular inflection that perhaps only O'Hara can command. Anyone who has lived in a small town can read it with an absolute guarantee that it will make him as homesick as the smell of leaves burning on an autumn evening...