Word: poisonous
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...Bruegel. Solondz has a dozen major characters trudging through Happiness. Stanley Tucci, the co-writer, co-director and star of everyone's favorite Italian-food film, Big Night, has created a shipful of fools in his farce The Impostors. Todd Haynes, known for his furtive, paranoid parables Poison and Safe, goes wide-screen and handsome to summon the ghosts of glam-rock in Velvet Goldmine...
There's nothing sinful about a hefty budget. That comes with big stars, special effects, a large crew, gourmet catering. Even on the indie circuit inflation is a fact of life. Haynes' 1991 Poison cost $350,000; the 1995 Safe came in at $1 million; and Velvet Goldmine is about a $9 million production. But what a production! There hasn't been such a smartly gaudy spectacle of musical raunch since Ken Russell's Tommy back in 1975, when the road to excess was carpeted in spangles...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; Nature Medicine; Mayo Clinic; New Jersey Poison Control Center...
...After just a few days, it is far too soon to tell whether Dr. Mahathir's desperate gamble will succeed or fail. The details of the plan have yet to be laid out, and those details will likely determine whether the plan is panacea or poison. Malaysian stocks tumbled on the news Tuesday, then lurched upward Wednesday as investors scrambled for bargains; the next few weeks will likely be turbulent as investors and speculators learn the ropes of what will be a very different Malaysia as far as outsiders are concerned. Inside Malaysia, Mahathir?s plan has already caused chaos...
...watch the news with our children. It leaves garbage in the living room. Every story gets viewed through a dirty prism: How much is our foreign policy shaped by domestic scandal? Did the tobacco bill fail because the President couldn't afford the fight? Cynicism is a political poison we've been absorbing into our bloodstream for a generation. But this time cynicism is just the beginning...