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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."
A whiff of his frat-boy charm is a powerful thing.
Also on the harbor, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (1675 Lower Water Street,) is housed in a turn-of-the-century ship chandlery, setting the tone with a nostalgic whiff of tarred rope in the restored shop on the ground floor.
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.)