Word: poisonous
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...radio show, broadcast weekly "from ocean to ocean, with lotions of love," makes Winchell, in every sense, a media monster. He knows there is something cancerous about American celebrity ("The spotlight," he says, "sheds a poison"), but he can't see that he himself will eventually succumb. In the '50s Winchell gets trounced by television while archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr...
...that is more or less true, but there are some strange gaps in Miller's indictment. One is Poland, where most of the victims lived and most of the killing actually occurred, and where the poison of anti-Semitism was still visible last year in Jozef Cardinal Glemp's resistance to the removal of a Carmelite installation at Auschwitz. The other is Israel, which probably would not exist but for the Holocaust and which still tends to cite the 6 million dead as justification for whatever actions it undertakes...
With this in mind, don't pass judgement on heavy metal on the basis of bands like Poison, Twisted Sister, and Anthrax. Be fair, and recognize the truly great musical achievements of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and AC/DC; the contemporary virtuosity of Iron Maiden and Metallica; as well as the refreshingly innovative and dangerous Guns N' Roses...
Some legislators accused Bush of going soft on Japan. Senate Democrat Lloyd Bentsen called the decision a "serious mistake" that could "poison the well," meaning Congress might be less likely to approve the Administration's future trade agreements with Eastern Europe and new rules being negotiated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. House majority leader Richard Gephardt was just as opposed: "At the very moment when we're beginning to see signs of tangible progress, the Administration seems to be saying it's time to back up and back...
...focus of anxiety these days is Iraq. In the 1980s President Saddam Hussein used poison gas against not only Iran but also rebellious Iraqi Kurds. Last year he tested the Tammuz-1 ballistic missile, with a range of 1,240 miles. Four weeks ago, he was caught trying to smuggle into Iraq U.S.-made electrical devices for what Western experts are convinced is a project to build an atom bomb. Then, on April 2, Saddam vowed to "let our fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to wage anything against Iraq...