Word: poisons
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...Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled in for questioning, who will giggle...
...Gucci Two-Shoes; she replies, "I didn't want to upstage my own performance." Charlene Tilton, 20, plays Lucy, the Ewing niece, as if she were really the love child of Mae West. The British press has a nickname for this tiny terror of Southfork: "the Poison Dwarf." When asked her response to those who call Dallas classy trash, she laughs with wide, wicked eyes: "Honey, they can call it whatever they want...
...scientists from the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, challenged the prevailing wisdom. It said that there was no reason for healthy adults to decrease dietary cholesterol and, in a slap at diet faddists, added: "Good food . . . should not be reguarded as a poison, a medicine, or a talisman. It should be eaten and enjoyed...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...
Soon after Lewis Carroll's Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole, she finds a little bottle with a label tied round its neck. Printed on it is a short, direct message: DRINK ME. Prudently, Alice looks to make sure there is no additional marking saying POISON, mindful that imbibing toxic liquids "is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Discovering none, she obeys the command-and shrinks to a height of ten inches...