Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Class Selective. The most significant source of lead poisoning was wine. To help preserve and sweeten it, the Romans added a syrup made of unfermented grape juice that had been boiled down in lead-lined pots, thereby greatly increasing the absorption of lead. Unfortunately the Romans did not understand, says the California Ph.D., that "this slow poison, this delicious syrup" delayed the wine's souring by killing impure microorganisms. In sterilizing the wine, "they knew not that they were also sterilizing themselves...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Julie Harris and Farley Granger combine talents to poison Granger's wife so they can use her money to support their future life in "Nightmare...
...Poison. Most textbook publishers insist that they do not produce separate editions for North and South. Though they are not aggressively marketing multiracial books in the South, they do expect to get more sales there. Some publishers tell school-district leaders that books bought with federal aid must be racially balanced. Actually, the law has no such requirement and, says an official of the U.S. Office of Education, that kind of federal control would be "just political poison-totally out of the question...
...provincial school teacher, Moreau expresses her lust for an Italian woodcutter (Ettore Manni) by scourging the countryside with fire, flood and poison. Moviegoers may take it or leave it; but those who stick around will probably want to amuse themselves by counting phallic symbols. Snakes and falling timber abound, and Mademoiselle's metaphor for the act of love is an ax blade buried in lumber. Xenophobia, pyromania and sundry aberrations are touched upon, while Genet catalogues the destructive power of Woman. On the night before the woodsman is beaten to death by the villagers who suspect...
...years later, the last survivor takes all. Two brothers, played with tireless bravura by John Mills and Ralph Richardson, are the champions of longevity, and their efforts to outlive each other lead to a hilarious family reunion in which Mills tries to do away with his sibling by poison, stabbing, strangling and flying crockery...