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Decent reviews for former New York Times executive editor Max Frankel's memoirs: Ward Just calls it a "a smart, tough, scrupulous book" in the New York Times Book Review ; in that fair journal's traditional negative-comment spot (the penultimate paragraph) all Just can come up with is that there's "a whiff of the puritan about Max Frankel, and perhaps also the rustle of score-settling."
Gore went on many such trips, where he and other Army journalists caught a whiff of combat without participating in it.
Then it disintegrates, leaving a mess of color and a faint whiff of rot" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). (The official site includes several trailers and stills from the film.)
Since contributions from foreign nationals residing here legally are allowed, it's hard to see what--other than a whiff of yellow peril in this case--distinguishes them from big donations by domestic interests.
At the age of 70-something, however, this trio has about it the barest whiff of self-serving motives.