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...film's phenomenology of sensation applies to the objects Why notices as well as the mode in which she perceives them. Poison daggers, animals' heads, all the exotic furnishings of Frederique's house in St. Tropez assume an irrational importance because Why, like a child, has an experience limited to that home. The content and mode of her experience dictate. like the phenomenology of voyeurism in L'Oeil du Malin and the phenomenology of emotion in La Femme Infidele. the actions of the protagonist...
...minute we find a sample with strychnine in it, we will get word to every rock station. every college radio station and every college newspaper in the city and tell them that there's poison around. If people want to take it after that, it's their choice...
...specialist in organic chemistry, Conant worked as an Army major during World War 1 on manufacturing a poison gas. "Chemical warfare strikes me as having a nuisance value, not as being a very effective weapon. Both sides are better off not using...
...Floyd F. Smith made the discovery after experiments with various slug killers. In a four-day test, he found that the standard bait, metaldehyde (which must be mixed with arsenic), attracted and killed only 28 slugs. Even then, the chemical caused the slugs to slug back: reacting to the poison, they exuded "copious quantities of slime" that Smith describes as "revolting to householders." By contrast, a shallow pan of beer lured 300 slugs: they sipped, then slipped, and happily drowned in the brew without a fight...
...Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete certain toxins that kill at a distance?that is, they poison the flour they are in, and they...