Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Precocious Novelist Franchise Sagan, 21, is probably France's most successful export to the U.S. since French fried potatoes and Chanel No. 5. Her neat, sentimentally acid little accounts of old-hearted juveniles and middle-aged delinquents were widely cheered by the critics, eagerly bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper...
...smelter for a dozen years. She combatted the effects of such anciently known poisons as mercury, used by hatters in matting felt and a frequent cause of brain damage (hence, some say, the expression "mad as a hatter"). And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions-TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries." She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds...
...late spring evening in 1924, a bird watcher named Judd Steiner dropped his glasses near a culvert which crossed the reedy marshlands outside Chicago. Judd, however, had not been watching birds. He had been busily stuffing the mutilated, acid-scarred body of a twelve-year-old boy into a drainpipe. He had a friend to help in this work-Artie Straus...
...aren't really big; their motives often appear selfish or spiteful or stupid. The disparity between the characters' grand surroundings and their petty actions is, of course, one of the main points of the film, and it requires that these people be cut down from epic size by constant acid scrutiny. But it doesn't take three hours and any number of lavish sets to advance such a relatively simple argument--Stevens, as a matter of fact, clinches the point in one short scene which shows the group of ill-bred oil millionaires milling about in a hotel room before...
Popular remedies for rattlesnake bite are as numerous as the diseases that venom was once supposed to cure. Klauber lists onions, garlic, chewed tobacco, ammonia, kerosene, gunpowder, nitric acid, lye, quicklime, and freshly killed chickens, split and applied to the wound. All such nostrums are useless, as is the classic remedy, whisky, which Klauber thinks has killed many snakebite victims who would have recovered if left untreated. The only effective drug is antivenin, which must be used with care. Best first-aid treatment is a ligature or tourniquet to isolate the bitten part of the body. The wound should...