Word: venom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Choice Venom. With a father's sure instinct, Arthur James Pegler. a Hearst reporter himself, forbade his son to go into journalism. But Westbrook heeded his father no more than he did anyone else. He quit high school to take a job with United...
...Such venom, such malignity, such vindictiveness, such cold-blooded malevolence must, indeed, have curdled the blood of the author of "The Only Blonde in the World...
...TIME books researcher until she married Kalem and became the mother of two children). Their sessions went so well that the resulting cover story may not provide the best illustration of one of Kalem's favorite definitions (by the late Critic Percy Hammond): "Dramatic criticism is the venom from contented rattlesnakes...
Brecht on Brecht. The phone is a coiled snake, and the woman (Viveca Lindfors) picks it up fatalistically, as if she had already been poisoned by its venom. Her manner is calm, but her voice is brittle with inner hysteria. She cancels a bridge date, calls off a movie date. The talk is bright and chatty, but these are not social calls. The woman is foreclosing her life...
...scenes, but then not much of them is actually seen. What is truly shocking in this picture has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with evil. The two main characters seem to be seducing people, but are actually destroying them. They are serpents who carry their venom in their loins...