Word: cruciferous
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A few over-emphasized clues aside, the movie is a fine, taut thriller. Meyer even finds a good excuse for the mayhem of the obligatory car chase scene--the fact that Wells, in pursuit of Stevenson, must manuever San Francisco's considerable hill without knowing how to drive. In blessed...
Actor Whitehead's Holmes might double as a prep headmaster, and Dr. Watson (Timothy Landfield) has been transformed into a romantic ninny. Botanically, crucifer means any plant of the family that produces mustard. This play fails to cut it.
This is certainly so in The Crucifer of Blood. The play is ostensibly about a nasty case solved by Sherlock Holmes (Paxton Whitehead) with his customarily occult intelligence - a fancifully distorted version of Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four. What Crucifer is actually about is Holmes'...
THE CRUCIFER OF BLOOD by Paul Giovanni
Arising with Drums. In the early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in...