His supporters scent a set-up.

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His film, Scent of a Mystery (with Peter Lorre as a dirty old man named Smiley), was the premiere and finale of Smell-O-Vision, in which odors were pumped into the theater from the projection room at pre-established cues.

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Perhaps not surprisingly, the critics of Poulenc's day were thrown off the scent by his apparent inconsistency of tone.

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He tends to obfuscate around the truth as if he's trying to put his inquisitor off the scent, to the point where once it's said he even lied.

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His first rule of thumb: Be scent-conscious in your day-to-day life.

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He finally won the Academy Award in 1992 for his role as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman, after seven previous nominations - including one for best supporting actor the same year.

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His father was a perfumer who would inhale the scent of every item on the dinner table, including the water.

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But his enterprises, and his personality, generated valuable publicity, and Mr Blass sold licences to attach his name to a wide range of products: scent, luggage, chocolate, furnishings, nearly 100 items in all.

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Some close to the prime minister scent an effort by Arjun Singh to embarrass his boss, whose job he is widely reckoned to think should be his.

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Even when one of the otters he looked after bit off part of a finger on each hand. he didn't blame the animal at all, just his own stupidity in reaching out to the otter while holding a cardigan full of the scent of a visitor to the cottage.

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