Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for the wonderful book review of The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk [TIME, July 6] . . . Let's have more such "liberal" conservative doses of reviews as poison an that now antidote to the destroy man and his civilization...
...view. The villains employed by Dr. T. are a carefree mixture of pirates, heavies out of The Arabian Nights, dabblers in atomic science, and cheerleaders for a rival junior high football team (one of the best of the picture's ten songs is a close-harmony, walls-of-poison-ivy number, softly sung by a group of "us stinkers"-Dr. T.'s plug-ugly hirelings...
Tragedy and exposure force his hand. Dinah gets pregnant and has a stillbirth. A poison-pen letter informs Madeleine of her husband's adulterous affair. Rickie promises not to see Dinah again, a promise he soon finds he cannot keep. When Madeleine turns down his halfhearted divorce plea, Rickie decides to run away with Dinah, but an attack of ulcers changes that plan. When he finally gets on his feet again. Dinah has drifted away from him, towards drink and the arms of another lover. Though she puts a "good face" on their patched-up marriage, Madeleine soon tosses...
...infected and inflamed, spreading the bad infection into the bone. There was talk of amputation. Penicillin and diathermy saved the leg, but while such infections can be curbed, they are sometimes impossible to cure. Mickey, who must guard against flare-ups of the infection, has had his share of poison-pen letters demanding to know why he is not fighting in Korea. On medical advice, Mickey's draft board has rejected him three times...
...previous major attempts: Warner's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and James Cagney; MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Financially and artistically disastrous, these productions convinced Hollywood that Shakespeare was "boxoffice poison...