Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a time in the not so distant past when a play dealing directly with homosexuality was box office poison. Today, Torch Song Trilogy continues in its third year on Broadway, while La Cage aux Folles (for which Fierstein wrote the book) plays to standing room audiences down the street. And so what is Fierstein trying to say in these works? It is not a political statement about homosexuality, nor it is an apology. The idea he expresses so eloquently is one of self-respect, of realizing one's worth and striving for what one desires and deserves...
...went through a door past a guard and into the room where the computer was. My friend pointed up to what looked like sprinklers in the ceiling. 'See those,' he said, 'if you enter an incorrect command you have 30 seconds to say you made a mistake or poison gas starts coming out of those nozzles.' He pointed to small doors along the wall. 'A minute after the gas starts coming out men with machine guns come out shooting from behind those doors,' he said." All for an unacknowledged error...
...vote may have meant that students at Brown University were anti-Bomb or, possibly, that they were pro-poison. By a tally of 1,044 to 687, collegians at the elite Ivy League campus in Providence called on the school administration to stockpile cyanide pills for use in the event of nuclear war. To critics who called the vote preposterous, Jason Salzman, a sponsor of the referendum, had a ready reply: "The nuclear arms race is killing us, and we succeeded in making a lot of people think about...
...lawyers--Joseph Flom of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Martin Lipton of New York's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz--are jousting in a Delaware court over the legality of the "poison pill" corporate take-over defense...
...article in the June 1984 Review, a Harvard law student defended the "poison pill" practice. Ironically, the student, whom the Review refuses to name, worked as a summer associate at Wachtell, Lipton, which is defending the practice in court...