Word: poisonously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainly, the road toward East-West detente is not exactly a high-speed expressway. It is vulnerable, moreover, to the sort of old-fashioned petty nationalism that is still able to poison relations between states. Last week, after a needless spasm of local hatreds had spoiled the atmosphere, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito canceled what would have been his first official visit to Rome. The flare-up involved Trieste, the Adriatic port city that has been disputed territory for many years and that nearly became a casus belli between East and West after World...
...Presumably, Coco Chanel also trusts Lerner.) The title role, naturally, is far more ticklish. The novel described Lolita as a "mixture of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity." And, as Humbert said, "you have to be an artist and a madman with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in order to discern by certain ineffable signs the little deadly demon among the wholesome children...
...situation tragedy, with its repetitive horrors and villainies lurching unpredictably into farce. Its demonic hero, Vendice (Kenneth Haigh), is bent on revenge without a hindering trace of Hamlet's "pale cast of thought" or the Dane's meditative scruples. Vendice comes onstage fondling the skull of his poisoned mistress. He plays pander in the court of the duke who killed her. Assembling the skeleton of his beloved (he calls her "the bony lady"), Vendice gowns and perfumes her, rouges the skull's lips with poison and tricks the duke into kissing...
Over the next three days, the antismoking message is pounded home. At our first hypnosis seminar, Nemon shows us how to put ourselves into trances. As he talks, most of the listeners drop off, and Nemon intones the credo: tobacco is a poison to the body, you need your body to live, and thus you must protect your body from further poisoning...
Stone decried the bellicose attitude of Senator Kennedy and vice-president Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted...