Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SURELY no modern audience is often asked to expend the kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub...
Cannabis was introduced into western medicine by a toxicologist and analytic chemist who confirmed that cannabis is non-poisonous, a view shared by the Chinese--who had carved a snake coiled around a rod from hemp stalks since the time of Shen Nung, legendary" father of medicine Queen Victoria's personal physician came to view cannabis as "one of the most valuable medicines that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders...
...Pharaoh wants to hear is the life stories of the elder Menenhetet, who has discovered a means of self-propagation by dying during the act of intercourse and transferring himself to his lover's womb. Menenhetet warns: "My story must be long like the length of the snake." The Pharaoh has no other plans for the rest of the night and encourages the old eyewitness to proceed "as slowly as you wish...
...stuck in New York with this sheila I met on the plane, watching a preview of a TV series the Yanks made of The Thorn Birds-you know, the novel by Colleen McCullough that Auntie Pat was reading before the port got her. Long as a snake's liver and all about this priest (Richard Chamberlain) and a girl named Meggie (Rachel Ward) on a station (or ranch, as they call it here) who get a big thing for one another and keep simmering away for about 35 years, slinging the stuff about guns, and guilt but rarely getting...
...That snake venom should be patented. The picture proved such an instantaneous hit that Yamada was ordered to turn out three more in four months. Since then the pace has slowed, and dedicated Tora-trekkies know that their hero will visit once in August and again just before the new year. Despite the speed at which they are made, the movies are surprisingly polished. After so much time on the assembly lines, the actors are pros, and Yamada keeps the action moving smartly...