Word: potion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullies some fullbacks, sings some songs in a Jerry-built baritone, and tells the chicks to call him Buddy Love. All this is too much for Student Stella Stevens, and off they go to a parking spot in Beverly Hills. But Lewis begins to feel the effects of his potion wearing...
...branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
...heightens the general shame in a quibble over whether a token of death amounts to death itself. To say that she died while trying to live (the hand on the telephone) only avoids the issue of her unhappiness, turning despair into a mechanical event measured in milligrams of sleeping potion...
...pretentious critical nonsense. Their mechanical techniques, almost inevitably, have allowed a number of non-novelists to masquerade as writers of fiction. Neo-Realist Marguerite Duras' pure conversational tour de force. The Square, has resulted in at least one non-novel of string-thin chitchat. The laudable Neo-Realist potion of engaging the reader directly in the action of the book has led another disciple, Marc Saporta, to try to enlist his readers as coauthor. His latest "novel." coming out this year, is an unbound stack of sparsely written pages. Buyers will be invited to shuffle them as they please...
...covers for TIME (this is his 26th), Painter Safran did some laboratory work of his own. Borrowing a technique from the old masters (the general idea is described in The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters, by Jacques Maroger), Safran mixes his own medium. He whips up a potion of raw linseed oil, litharge (lead monoxide) and natural sun-bleached beeswax, and cooks it over a slow fire for two hours, stirring often and being careful that it does not boil. He then stores the product, which is called black oil and looks like axle grease, in old mayonnaise...