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...devoted his distinguished old age to scratching the back part of his head with his right big toe. Such displays of animal high spirits were not, however, confined to the gentleman's later years. When young, Waterton made four separate trips to South America, where he sought the wourali poison (a cure, he was convinced, for hydrophobia), and once spent months on end with one foot dangling from his hammock in the quixotic hope of having his toe sucked by a vampire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Last month, for the first time since Nixon issued his pointed decree, workers at the Army's Pine Bluff, Ark., arsenal resumed nerve-gas production by filling, sealing and storing artillery-shell components with an ingredient of GB, a nerve poison related to the pesticide malathion. When combined with simple rubbing alcohol, which the Army plans to load into artillery shells at Shreveport, La., the chemical turns lethal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A Nerve-Gas Arms Race | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

INNERSPACE Sci-fi satires may finally be B.O. poison, but Director Joe Dante knows how to send the genre out (and up) in a blaze of tangled plots, visual bravura and comic-book savvy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '87: Cinema | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Reagan recalled that gas masks were retainedafter poison gas was outlawed. The StrategicDefense Initiative, he said, was "a gigantic gasmask and maybe...the thing that could bring aboutthe end of nuclear missiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Will Seek More Arms Pacts | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...picture in the Philippines also remains grim. Byzantine intrigues continue to be launched against Aquino. To distract the nervous capital, her enemies on both the right and the left freely sow sensationalist rumors among Manila's 28 newspapers. The city's coffee shops and political salons cultivate witticisms to poison the President's reputation. One favorite is a Spanish pun on the name Corazon C. Aquino. With a finger at the chest, the speaker says, "Corazon, si" (she has a heart); with a finger at the head, he continues, "Aqui, no" (here, nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Praying For Time | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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