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YELLOW JESSAMINE (entire plant): thirst, dilation of the pupils, reddened skin, headache, high blood pressure and rapid pulse, convulsions, delirium and coma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Hartman's List of Lethal Foliage | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

POINSETTIA (leaves and stem): diarrhea, abdominal cramps and delirium. Sap can cause skin irritation and, if rubbed in the eyes, blindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Hartman's List of Lethal Foliage | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Wagner, Napoleon and Kutuzov never meet face to face, nor do we ever see Andrei suffer his fatal wound, nor can Natasha save him. But although War and Peace is no lyric drama, Prokofiev is capable of remarkably delicate touches, like the soft rasping of strings that evoke the delirium of Andrei's death scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Battle for the Fatherland | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

Ingratiating Delirium. If this cockfight between the stars lends the movie its feisty appeal, its wholehearted trafficking in musical cliches imparts an air of ingratiating delirium. There are the usual lavish numbers-including a reproduction of a Billy Rose Aquacade -staged with a satiric glint by Director Herbert Ross (The Last of Sheila). But the best tune in the show is a ballad (If I Love Again), delivered quietly by Streisand as she stands with a song sheet over a piano. The writers have also supplied a fair number of punchy Broadway wisecracks. Says Caan, proposing to Streisand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blazing Tonsils | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Remember Fischer fever? Mild nausea, mottled fury, odd sensations of Russophilia, night sweats about poisoned pawns. Get set for a new and more severe epidemic. In 1972 the delirium was nourished by a prize fund of $250,000, twelve times greater than any previous chess purse. In 1975 the provender is grotesquely more substantial. Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov, the 23-year-old Russian challenger for the World Chess Championship, have been invited by the Philippine Islands to meet in Manila on June 1 and push little wooden soldiers round a checkered board for the second largest stakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strange Boardfellows | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

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