Word: poisonously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images of Rasputin, riddled by bullets and reeling from poison, are inevitable and surely inappropriate...
...almost surpasses belief. So, often, does their sculptural quality: witness Issan's tiny, writhing red dragon netsuke. To complete his inro bearing the motif of a Chinese ship, Ritsuo (1663-1747) had to apply some 80 coats of lacquer-the dangerously toxic sap from a Japanese relative of poison ivy. Lacquer is slow drying; it had to be left for days or even weeks between coats, and laboriously burnished with charcoal and powdered deer horn. To examine these objects is to realize how vast a language of craft has been lost to Japan, and to the world, since...
...poison, along with tons of other toxic wastes, had come from chemical plants all over Europe, partly be cause Belgium has extremely tolerant pollution laws, partly because the village of Hannêche (pop. 300) has a rather tolerant government. Specifically, Mayor Edouard Elias and his town council had struck an agreement with a newly created Belgian disposal company named Vebeka. Elias got a seat on the company board and Vebeka got a license to dump wastes in the cavernous old factory; the town would get 55? per ton of the lethal garbage. Vebeka Chief Adrianus Van den Bogert...
Slaughterhouse-Five. An improvement on the Vonnegut novel, directed by George Roy Hill and written by Stephen Geller (who wrote the original novel on which Pretty Poison was based). The structure is cleaned up, the characters sharpened, and the Dresden holocaust sequences are horrifying--if not as devastating as, say, the recent films of the Quang Tri citadel...
...tests and discovered signs of arsenic, which, when administered in small doses over a period of time, produces symptoms that can easily be mistaken for those of other ailments. Some of the organs from Lilly's late husband were reexamined, and they also showed large amounts of the poison...