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...Gore Vidal. A witty poison-pen card to the U.S. on its Bicentennial, this travelogue through America in midpassage concentrates on the crimes, high and low, of robber barons and burglar-politicians...
Weir doesn't even call his pictures photographs, but photographics. More mystery, this time in the technical process, not in the conception. Silver bromides and cyanotypes sound like poison, but are merely, the initiated say, transforming photographic potions. What they will do to film's record of reality remains to be seen...
Alfred, who teaches English 200a and a section of English 10, said, "I hope all my fingernails fall off if I ever lift a cigarette again. It really is poison...
...plentiful. Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children, she is a sharp-nailed bitch with expensive and self-indulgent tastes, subtly pushing Jerry towards estrangement from his wife...
...mouth shut, and, in fact, has urged the candidate to swallow some of his windy and revealing answers. But, he said with some resignation and humor, "That's Jimmy. He'll tell everything. He's come a long way being open. It may be political poison nationally, but it worked in Georgia." Stoic and cheerful as he sounded, Kirbo was a bit depressed, and back in Georgia he showed it-which was surprising...