Word: poisonous
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...behind the unseeing Tippi Hedren in The Birds, or Jimmy Stewart wrestling with his fear in a church steeple in order to rescue his lost love at the end of Vertigo. There is Cary Grant climbing the stairs to bring Joan Fontaine a glass of milk?or is it poison??in Suspicion. There is sweet Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt musing about women in a small town kitchen as Hitchcock deftly uses light and a simple camera move to bring out the evil implications of his seemingly innocent speech...
...Interior, vocals, "Poison" Ivy Rorschach, guitar, Bryan Gregory, guitar, and Nick Knox, drums compose the Cramps, a most unusual foursome. The absence of bass gives the music that trash quality inherent in surf music and early rockabilly. The sound outperforms all contenders in establishing that certain reckless abandon which lay at the heart of the earliest rock and roll. Yet everything is updated for the 1980's, starting with increased speed and ending with atonal, buzzsaw guitar work and demented lyrical concerns...
...Bronx apartment house; one voice that sings "Reach out" belongs to Phoebe Snow; there is a kid much in demand because he had his front teeth extracted when he was 2½. There is also a serious actress: "I won't do those brutal pesticides that poison the environment, and I won't do douches ... You might say that my standards are basically political...
...Poison gas attacks. Napalm. Strafing by jets. Random executions of women and children...
...animus of the Movement, vibrant in all of Viorst's heroes, was not the nemesis of one war, of one minority--it was the nemesis of an entire machine, the ideals and values of America which caused the country to blunder into war, oppress peoples, and poison the environment. The Movement was out to get Moloch, the institution of dehumanization that is lighted on billboards and written on paychecks and that drafts the young to fight for vital interests and economic growth...