Word: bileful
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...verdict day. After Cochran's summation, police chief Willie Williams declared he would hold the entire defense team responsible for heightening tensions in his city: "When this trial is over, they're going to go back to their homes. [But] we're going to have to live with the bile spewed out these last few days...
...idiot," one character tells another in Woody Allen's one-acter, Central Park West. The words might equally sum up either of the other two short plays, An Interview and Hotline, that opened off-Broadway last week under the collective title Death Defying Acts. All three offer humor of bile and bite...
...urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When the scheme works, as in MASH and The Player, it does so by giving people something fresh to do and witty to say. Then the bile has an urgent, instructive tang. It's called satire...
...Even when a cause-and-effect relationship is established, as in major industrial accidents, the data are confusing. In the years after a large dioxin release in 1976 in Seveso, Italy, for example, the incidence of leukemias, lymphomas and soft-tissue cancers in men and gall-bladder and bile- duct cancers in women rose -- but breast and endometrial cancers in women actually went down. Possible reason: dioxin may sometimes interfere with the hormone system in beneficial ways...
...reward for tips leading to the arrest of the "real killer." Potentially more damaging, the Los Angeles County coroner's office, pressured by media leaks, admitted that 16 pieces of evidence in the Simpson case had been mishandled. Though most of the errors were minor (a container of bile temporarily mislabeled as urine), the admission presented an opening for the defense to press its contention that every step of the investigation has been sloppy. And press it did. Shapiro filed a motion charging investigators with failing to pursue witnesses and physical evidence that might buttress Simpson's claim of innocence...