Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First they fed him nine baked bananas at a meal. Then they tried oxalic acid. Finally, Jones dipped a piece of sponge in some chloroform, formed a cone with a towel and stuck it on Rice's nose...
...alas for Adam's vegetable idyl! The villain, Mr. Universe (Steve Reeves), idly nibbles at a white orchid and pouts: "You've been avoiding me, Athena, and I'm full of acid and electricity." One day he wraps his triceps around Adam's neck, but Adam remembers his Commando tactics, flattens the meatless wonder and gets the girl. As one of her sisters remarks: "It's wonderful what you can do without muscles...
...Flemyng's Osmund is to perfection the egoistic tyrant the script prescribes. With Archibald's assist, however, one performance makes all the others seem drab. Cathleen Nesbitt draws from the role of Osmund's vulgar sister a vibrant bitterness which bursts from the genteel monotony of the play. Her acid interpretation, less dilute with silliness than James' conception, gives the lines a brilliance which illuminates the last two acts. In her scenes there is an eloquent portrait of a lady; the play offers no other...
...returned for its third season of promised "experimental" TV. The only out-of-the-ordinary feature was a TV book review of Fred Allen's Treadmill to Oblivion, which tells the story of the life and death of his famed radio show. Allen read some acid commentary on the industry (including the old saw that "advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission"), and there was a pleasant nostalgia to his re-creation of Allen's Alley. The remainder of Omnibus' 90 minutes was devoted to some mildly interesting but hardly experimental films: the escape of two ballet...
Henry A. Bunker '58 and Harold R. Andrews '58, members of the M.I.T. Rocket Club, were heating ammonium hydroxide and picric acid in an attempt to make rocket fuel. The mixture apparently reached its explosion point, 360 degrees Centigrade, before the students could halt...