Word: tonic
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...courtiers than arresting officers. They took Castellano to the federal court complex in Manhattan by a back way to avoid the flashbulbs. When the aging diabetic felt a little peckish, they secretly drove him to a favorite deli so he could enjoy a corned beef on rye with celery tonic...
Wild at Heart, which sends a pair of loser lovers (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) on a trip into the dark night of the Southern Gothic soul, is a tonic for the senses and an assault on the sensibilities. Heads splatter, skulls explode, biker punks torture folks for the sheer heck of it, and a pair of loopy innocents find excitement in a side trip to hell. Pretty much like Blue Velvet. Yes, it's different, but the same kind of different; Lynch could no longer shock by being shocking. Many critics figured they had solved the mystery...
...homes in on the distinctions between virtue and conformity. His central characters are the Phelans, a scruffy clan of hoodlums, vandals, welfare cheats and general layabouts who are burned out of their home in a fatal arson. Not even this makes them sympathetic. They remain a bitter if invigorating tonic, to be taken in carefully measured doses. But they are mean-spirited fun. Barnard, an acute and merciless chronicler of Britain's middle classes, is at his fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested by, the convention-scorning Phelans. The story's most intense...
...Last week the company opened a $15 million corporate museum called the World of Coca-Cola (admission: $2.50). The three-story building houses more than 1,000 artifacts, memorabilia and documents, ranging from 75-year-old green-glass bottles to advertising posters with tag lines like "The Ideal Brain Tonic" and "Coke...
...impact on old-fashioned notions of civilized discourse. Is there room for subtlety and gentility in a culture overrun by expressions of gross intolerance? And what impact will this culture have on the first generation to grow up within it? Does this stuff have artistic merit? Is it tonic or toxic? Can we dance to it or comfortably laugh at it? Should we march against it or just sit back and enjoy...