Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taunted by his brothers and father; he is sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden and obsessed with death. Suspecting that his wife has been unfaithful with his brother, he orders the brother killed. Then, having built a garden of grotesque stone sculptures symbolizing his inner traumas, he unwittingly drinks poison and dies in the gaping mouth of one of his statues; his only benediction is a kiss from an innocent shepherd boy who skips...
...fairy tales and most novels, the villains are more captivating than the heroes. Jane, the wicked stepmother, cultivates her malice by writing poison-pen letters. Her equally wicked consort, Hogo de Bergerac, cultivates evil by offering himself as an informer to the Internal Revenue Service...
...kill any earthly bugs. In any event, the report says, there is little chance that organisms entrapped within solid structures in the spacecraft could work their way free. Thus it is important only to kill microorganisms on the exposed surfaces of the spacecraft either by brief heating or by poison gas, neither of which would be harmful to conventional spacecraft systems...
...afternoon speech before the Radcliffe Graduate Society, Robert Saudek '32, ex-television producer and an author of the Carnegie Commission report on educational television, "threw a poison dart and shed a tear" over commercial TV, saying that it has little hope of becoming anything but a "citadel of the non-think...
...poison in a ring. March, madman, cross...