She pictured the runty Marine general--a veteran of the Nicaraguan campaigns--standing feistily between opposing texts.

She made a notation in the margin of the book.

In Noises Off we're hurled through the first act--in three different incarnations--from an imaginary very silly, veddy British sex farce, Nothing On, that's deservedly playing the provinces.

The 3M Company has had spectacular success with its scratch-and-sniff scents. These are microfragrances encapsulated in millions of tiny plastic bubbles — more than fifty million to a square inch of paper.