“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles (Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949)
HARD-BOILED: GREAT LINES FROM CLASSIC NOIR FILMS, by Peggy Thompson and Saeko Usukawa
Scientists have long known that the sense of smell is not just the most emotionally evocative of our senses, it’s also the most subtle.
It can influence decisions, derail business deals and crucially affect our judgment about a our fellow man (or woman).
Now, a self-published book will offer a tour of the rich, varied and often brutal smells you come across in New York City.
Following that, check the oddest collection of smells ever contained in a bottle, and see whether one of your favorites is out in the market, sold as a perfume.
SCRATCH AND SNIFF
New York, Phew York has accomplished what no multimillion dollar Hollywood production has been able to: capture a sample Continue reading
When you think about the endangered Amazon forest, of which the biggest part is located in Brazil, thoughts about indigenous peoples, the environment, healing plants and the majestic Rainforest may come to your mind. But hardly ever the famed boardwalks of Coney Island, New York City.
In another one of those things you didn’t know, but now it hardly matters because it’s already on its way out, so it happens that the slabs of wood people have been stepping on and Continue reading
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles (Harry Lime)
HARD-BOILED: GREAT LINES FROM CLASSIC NOIR FILMS, by Peggy Thompson and Saeko Usukawa
Check out this article on “FAMOUS CINEMATIC LINES THAT WEREN’T ACTUALLY SPOKEN“, by Fred R. Shapiro.
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