BEA Photos, Roll No.1

By Kathryn 

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Last time I saw a line this long, I was on the dance floor at a bar mitzvah. Here, expo-goers endure the wait for Mexican.

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Keynote speaker Billy Crystal gets advice on his next book from Dr. Ruth. Photographers taller than I am point their cameras at the stage, not the screen.

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Among the scents offered in Demeter’s “Scent Library”: the sweet-but-musty “Paperback.” Also offered by Demeter: a line of synthetic pheromones which, despite the implications of Penguin’s recent marketing campaign, make no reference to literature or books.

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The coat check, from above, looks like a refugee camp, its refugees having just been exiled from their native land of Saks.