What is an example of simile in the book, Blackouts: A Novel?

Simile:

"When once I tried to rub clean the view using the edge of my sleeve, I instead created a halation effect, like the Vaseline smudge of Old Hollywood close-up.”

“He suggested, with sincerity, that I was one of the lam, but this was another figure of speech with which I was unfamiliar, and even after he explained, the entire notion of running and hiding seemed funny to me, as old-fashioned as the wallpaper.”