Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unity" with the people. Reinforcing this impression was the announcement that Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 69, would deliver the Soviet equivalent of a "state of the union" address. This traditionally lasts from five to six hours-scarcely an undertaking for a man long rumored to be suffering from a fatal physical or political illness. Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 71, whose survival in power is often linked to Brezhnev's, is scheduled to deliver the crucial report on the economy...
AZALEA (entire plant): paralysis of the muscles, including the heart, depression of the central nervous system. Sometimes fatal...
BLACK LOCUST (bark, foliage, young sprouts): depression, vomiting, diarrhea and weakened heartbeat. Often fatal...
Counters Nestlé Managing Director Arthur Fürer: "No one has yet hit on the idea of demanding that wine be sold through doctors or pharmacies because hundreds of thousands of people get drunk on it and sometimes cause fatal accidents." Nestle officials insist that their advertising has always stressed, as one billboard in Nigeria puts it, that BREAST MILK IS BEST. Often, however, mothers themselves are undernourished and must supplement their own milk with formula. Nestlé was also a principal architect of an ethical code recently adopted by nine infant-food producers. The code requires that promotional...
...twist. The Joycelin Schranger Story is both a witty send-up of seedy Manhattan cineasts and the disconcerting tale of a projectionist trapped in a laughably bad movie. Getting Into Death, the collection's longest and best story, follows a writer through the last weeks of her fatal illness. On paper she is two writers: Cassandra Knye, a successful purveyor of gothic romances, and B.C. Millar, author of esoteric murder mysteries. Chain-smoking cigarettes and wisecracking with a stream of hospital visitors, she searches stoically among her own past fictions for the kind of lie that will prepare...