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...play's domestic spectacle. And the New Left (personified in the three witches, a New Negro, and old Wobbly and an audacious little coed) is damned along with the rest of the pack interested only in social disorder ("Bubble and bubble, toil and trouble, / Burn Baby Burn and caldron bubble...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, AT THE CHARLES PLAYHOUSE INDEFINITELY | Title: Mac Bird | 6/14/1967 | See Source »

...Sticky & Warm. The trap of just about all such flowers is a hollow tunnel formed by the flower's blossom that botanists call the caldron. Some varieties of trap flowers are equipped along their rims with countless tiny hairs, which appear to an approaching insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botany: The Tender Trap | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...organ as they try to escape. After a night inside the Aaron's-rod flower, mosquitoes find themselves literally snowed under by pollen, while flies caught by the lily-like arms of another trap flower must wade through mounds of pollen to move from one part of the caldron to another. The curved hollow of the purplish-green Dutchman's-pipe is pocked on the inside by windowlike patches that are surrounded with pollen, which rubs off on the bug who mistakes the bright patch for daylight and freedom. Often the caldron provides warmth and humidity: sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botany: The Tender Trap | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...Watchman, by Davis Grubb. The author of Night of the Hunter stirs another sulphurous caldron of horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...group of newsmen. From a distance, the flyers could spot a towering column of smoke and steam that cut through the haze like a high-piled thunderhead. Closer in, they dropped down to observe green acres of ocean that were boiling and rolling. In the center of that vast caldron, breaking 250 feet above the surface, the crater of a new volcano could be seen belching clouds of gas and great black boulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Island | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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