Word: poisons
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...York School, dubbed it Christmas Tree, because it had been painted at that time of year. But Joan Mitchell remembered the dark and blue feeling of a Wallace Stevens poem that spoke of peacocks and hemlocks. "So I called it Hemlock, but everyone thought I meant poison...
...itself-violated Lucrèce theme sounds louder chords, as the pure lady bids the rake kill himself only for him to be killed in a duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women...
...neighboring Connecticut and New Jersey but pay higher New York income taxes than residents, and 3) encourage, by tax deductions, voluntary construction of atomic fallout shelters in homes and commercial buildings. Originally advanced on a mandatory basis, Rockefeller's deadly earnest shelter plan was viewed as political poison by assemblymen, who sent it back to committee amid hoots of laughter that might some day have a hollow ring...
...award for the year's best actress. Whether she wins or not, hers is certainly the only new face -and the most exciting-among the nominees.-Says Simone: "It's pleasant to have sympathetic roles and be popular. I've begun to drink the subtle poison...
...guards and materials. Himmler suggested using more dogs to herd the prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when the camp gassed and cremated "rather more than 9,000" in a 24-hour period...