Word: poisonously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pretty Poison, Saturday, April...
...Pretty Poison. A cult piece, which means that a lot of people liked it better than the New York Times did. No matter--it has Tuesday Weld and that's reason enough to slip over and see it after you've told fifty people at dinner you're going to Potemkin, "unlike the rest of the mealy-brained slobs at this University." Good luck...
...well and good for a critic to try to create a climate of acceptance for the kind of art that fits his nature and associations. But for him to go out of his way to denigrate the success and poison the esteem of a wide audience for a man whose earthy and forceful works do not fall into the critic's category of approved art constitutes the sourest of gripes. For him to state that,every self-respecting art historian since 1965 would bolster his argument against Benton is ridiculous...
Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
...takes over the stove scouring, Sidney copes with a stopped drain, and Ronald dances an electrocution waltz with some naked wiring, Eva sleepwalks her way fixedly toward suicide. She tries to jump out a window, impale herself on a knife, throttle herself with a rope, electrocute herself and take poison. Half dead with fatigue, she ends the act conducting the others, with a waveringly insistent hammer for a baton, in a chorus of The Twelve Days of Christmas...