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...very long ago, the barbs were considerably more lethal, and the careers of the brothers far dodgier. Born in Manchester, England, to Barbara (a former nightclub singer) and Hugh Gibb (leader of a 13-piece dance band on a ferryboat), the brothers started singing in public in 1955 due to technical difficulties. Barry, then nine, and the twins Robin and Maurice, three years younger, would show up at local Manchester movie palaces and come out between shows as the Rattlesnakes, dancing and moving their lips to pop records piped in from backstage. One day the record broke just as they...
...company officials assumed that the cloud and the droplets that fell from it onto homes, gardens and livestock were composed of trichlorophenol, an irritating but nonfatal chemical. But the overheating reactor sent the temperature of the TCP soaring above 200° C. Dioxin was formed-a substance so lethal that one hundred-millionth of a gram in a two-pound mixture would kill half the rabbits who might...
Actually, no one is poisoned. Garroting and fiendishly induced heart attacks are more the tools of this particular evening of murder. Oh yes, and a handsomely lethal crossbow...
...remote Thelon River by two young Americans who happened to be on a research dogsled run through the Thelon Game Sanctuary. Scientists said that it emitted "moderate" radiation, and while they pondered whether and how to break the ray-absorbing river ice to find out whether more lethal parts lay below, armed Canadian paratroopers set up a camp in the -40° F. cold...
...vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...