Word: acidizing
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...Michel Piccoli) and end up in his bed. Director Girod handles the sexual passages with a cool discretion that contrasts oddly with the hot pornographic spirit he brings to the trio's murderous doings. The film's gruesome centerpiece is a bloodbath double murder, followed by an acid bath of several days' duration to dispose of the corpses. A few critics have suggested that Le Trio Infernal is supposed to be a black comedy, but the length and the detailing that Girod lavishes on this sequence dissolve that conceit more quickly than the acid turns the victims...
...leadership nor had he lobbied old colleagues for his vetoes. "If the President expects to have his vetoes sustained, he has to make a definite case for them," said House G.O.P. Leader John Rhodes. From the other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill was more acid: "Since the day he commuted Nixon, he hasn't done anything right...
...ever went on sale. Nonetheless, a number of Bordeaux merchants are worried about adverse publicity. After all, there are fresh memories of the notorious Vino Ferrari scandal of 1968, when Italian inspectors discovered that millions of quarts of red wine had been made from banana paste, tar acid, seaweed and other strange ingredients. It took the Italians five years to recover from that public relations disaster, and the Bordeaux wine industry is anxious. According to one story circulating in France, the Japanese are now producing Bordeaux-type wines and labeling them with a warning: BEWARE OF FRENCH IMITATIONS...
Sharpe's characters are not so much etched in acid as flayed. The liberal college master glibly invents the slogan ALTERATION WITHOUT CHANGE. A longtime college servant muses, "Wog's in the Empire were different from wogs outside it and wogs in the Fox Club wasn't wogs at all or they wouldn't be members." There is a TV commentator whose carefully developed public image is that of a "lenient Jeremiah." Perhaps best of all, Sharpe presents a graduate student memorably beset by lust. Too diffident to ask for contraceptives in drugstores (where the clientele...
Cases vary widely. State and local officials are being investigated and indicted in unprecedented numbers. The record of a durable doer like New York's Robert Moses is debunked. The awesome images of Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger have been leaked on with acid. The public's approval of Presidents, at least as measured by opinion polls, fluctuates wildly...