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...proclaimed program had a gentle sound, as he sought to prove the unity and good intentions of Soviet leadership and to re-establish a firm international line instead of the wobbling and confused foreign policy Russia has recently exhibited. But the faggots of denunciation were being gathered, and the smell of flames...
...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...
...Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite...
...bounded up to the Sanctum, leaving small puffs of dust behind him on the steps. The familiar smell of old books, old dust, and old beer rolled out as he opened the doors. Inside, paper cups and half empty bottles on a base of old newspapers covered the floor. The managing editor was asleep on a coach. "Nothing ever changes," thought Vag, and started his search...
...Smell of Genius & Sewers. "What a strange lot they were, when I think on it!'' recalls Miller. "Judson Crews of Waco, Texas, one of the first to muscle in, reminded one-because of his shaggy beard and manner of speech-of a latter-day prophet. He lived almost exclusively on peanut butter and wild mustard greens . . ." Some were writers of great books, incomprehensibly without publishers. Another merely "smelled of genius." Another was writing "a chthonian [i.e., from the nether world] drama mirroring the nightmare," etc. Even the man who might put in sewers would do so with...