The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
About Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. He is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humorand an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008).
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
American journalist
I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
American journalist
I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still.
American journalist
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
American journalist
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
American journalist
Health food makes me sick.
American journalist
As far as I’m concerned, “whom” is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
American journalist
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they’re trying to keep out.
American journalist
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
American journalist