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...months as Allied joint commander in Berlin, Stalin moved to strip him of his war-won glory. In his secret speech to the 20th Congress, Khrushchev told how the jealous Stalin spread stories that "before each operation at the front Zhukov used to take a handful of earth, smell it and say: 'We can begin the attack,' or the opposite: 'The planned operation cannot be carried out.' " Zhukov was banished for six years, to Odessa, then to the Urals. But within 24 hours of Stalin's death, he was back in high command...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...hugging to her strong heart every thing that quivers with life, in order to embrace it, crush it, draw the very marrow out of it . . . In . . . intervals passive, idling and greedy, she munches apples . . . disembowels chocolate eclairs arranges the fire . . lights some sticks of what she calls 'smell-good.' These flames and the smoke intoxicate...
...insatiable Colette lived day in, day out with this appetite. The mere sight of a Camembert cheese roused desire to "feel the crust, measure the elasticity of the texture." Sapphires, spring's first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...