Word: toxicants
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...listen really carefully, right before she starts singing, you can hear the ringtone which everyone downloaded at some point during the year. And I know there are many people—so, so many people, admit it or not—who Googled “britney spears toxic video” within a week of its release, and in doing so lined the pockets of the advertisers who were banking on so, so many people doing just that. So why does that make it innovative? Why does that make it different than any other mass-marked, ramped-up bubble...
Addressing those professors who criticized him at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting for fostering what they called a toxic atmosphere at the University, Summers said he was open to dissent...
Several professors echoed that sentiment, referring to what they perceived as a toxic atmosphere at Harvard under Summers...
...style, as this 1929 drama from German director E.A. Dupont proves. It's the All About Eve fable, with an exotic youngster (Anna May Wong) replacing an older star (Gilda Gray). Wong, the one Chinese-American movie star in Holly-wood's first half-century, exudes the toxic perfume of sexual danger and makes every woman around her (including Gray, the ostensible star) look frowsy. Like Wong, this terrific movie still has heat and a hard luster...
...Stewart likens the CEO to Lear and Richard III--though the literary comparison undeservedly puffs up DisneyWar and Eisner. A media leader squandering his company's worth, a tyrannical boss, a failure clinging to power--these are dog-bites-man stories that Stewart simply bundles up in a deliciously toxic, if underanalyzed, package. It's not a tragedy worthy of the Bard, but it is a lusty roll in greed and spite. In other words, a good old-fashioned Hollywood production...