Word: potion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, Bissell has the curious ability to affect his fans like four beers on a hot afternoon, and to chill his de tractors like four draughts of anti-beer, a potion (mercifully still to be invented) that leaves a man progressively soberer and meaner. Good Bye, Ava is not exactly anti-beer; it is simply a little flat...
...soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion that supposedly made them immune to bullets, the Balubas fearlessly charged a police barricade, hurling spears, shooting arrows, firing old muzzle-loaders filled with nuts and bolts. Police fire cut down 35 Balubas, while two police were killed...
Despite such simplicity of design, stage movements throughout most of The Ring were so statuesque that they suggested oratorio rather than opera. Realism was often ludicrously mixed with abstraction; when Mime helped to fashion a sword for Siegfried out of a magic potion, he matter-of-factly cracked two eggs into the potion as if following a recipe by Gayelord Hauser. Worst of all was the lighting, which was so murky that it came close to achieving Richard Wagner's stated ideal: "Now that I have created the in visible orchestra,* I would like to invent the invisible stage...
...sips the potion with imperturbable grace as she holds court in a lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, flustering her own pressagents, for whom she has little need, and chattering over a beige-colored phone in her serviceable English and sparkling French. Her robust charm, the shaggy, Chablis-tinted hair over soft, wide-set eyes, and the generous mouth that twists with Gallic wit as the words come tumbling out, all add up to a sultry but utterly unphony femininity that makes her, at 39, far sexier than most of Hollywood's chromium-plated babes. She describes...
...mention of a name the family head jerks his head, the diviner has a suspect. The local misheke then produces a poison from the powdered bark of the ihumi tree and, gathering all the villagers to drink, spikes the suspect's cup with his lethal potion. After four drinks, the suspected witch must walk or run through the village, to spread the poison through his body. If the victim vomits the poison and does not die. he is declared innocent of the charges; if not, his body is left on a small platform of reeds outside the village...