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...months after the election, the glibness recedes. Kitty writes of waiting for Michael to leave in the morning, then breaking out the vodka, unplugging the phone, drawing the blinds and passing out. She drank the dregs from the wineglasses after parties and gulped peanut butter to disguise the smell. Her isolation was matched only by her shame: she had often been held up to the public as a model of a recovered addict. In the final pages, as she describes losing everything, Kitty finds her strongest voice. By the end, she'd win every vote for courage and all hopes...
...knock against Kurt Vonnegut, back a couple of decades ago when he was a cult author, was that he pandered too glibly to the natural cynicism of the disaffected young. He was too quick, it was said, to detect the smell of society's insulation burning -- and to sigh "So it goes" -- when there was nothing more in the air than, say, a harmless whiff from a distant war or the neighborhood toxic-waste dump. No more; his news in Hocus Pocus is that our charred insulation no longer smolders. It has burned itself out, and civilization's great, tired...
...sacks they put on your head are never cleaned, and they smell of vomit. They can add more sacks, and you begin to suffocate -- that works very fast on some guys...
...village of Deir Dibwan, northeast of Ramallah, the newer houses are made of rich blond limestone, with lemon trees in the front yards and, on the roofs, miniature Eiffel Towers to brace television antennas. The village has simultaneously the smell of goats and an air of affluence. It is a theme park of Palestinian authenticity, a once-was village sustained by money from America. Deir Dibwan has a population of 8,000. At any given time, some 4,000 are in the U.S. making money...
...years Hoboken, N.J., has awakened to the rich smell of coffee roasting at the Maxwell House factory on the town's famous waterfront. But last week the Philip Morris subsidiary announced that the factory, which has 600 employees and ranks as the city's largest industrial employer, will close in 1992. Like other brands, Maxwell House has suffered from the decline in U.S. coffee consumption. On average, Americans now drink 1.75 cups a day, roughly half their intake in 1962. Younger consumers favor soft drinks...