Word: venom
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...Swaggart had fashioned himself into the most hated of the TV preachers. He smoldered with resentment against the proud, the well born and the intellectual. He had attacked Roman Catholicism for "damning the deceived souls of multitudinous millions," and Jews, attributing their sufferings to "rejection of Christ." With equal venom, he spewed accusations against fellow conservative Protestants...
...Giorgio perfume, if Author Judith Briles is to be believed. In her recently published book, Woman to Woman: From Sabotage to Support (New Horizon Press; $18.95), she sets down nearly 300 pages of testimonials supporting the hypothesis that women are attacking women in the workplace with carefully veiled venom and viciousness. "If women are going to sabotage someone, it's more likely to be another woman than a man," declares Briles, 42, a former Palo Alto, Calif., stockbroker...
...bounds into the studio with a flurry of high-fives for his raucous fans. Once the show is under way, he paces the stage hungrily, a cigarette dangling from his knuckles and venom dripping from his toothy grin. Liberals are "Pablum pukers"; the current presidential candidates are "baboons." Guests or audience members who rile him are fair game for ripostes like "Don't be a smartass with me, punk," or an escort out the door. He ignites the crowd -- mostly young males who appear to be bused in from the stands of some local sports arena -- into bursts of cheering...
Roberts had told the AP in October that he was having difficulty learning Russian and was disenchanted with his job capturing venom from poisonous snakes for use as antivenom serum...
...these creatures are not immune to their own venom. Howard Davies' direction, unobtrusive until the marquise declares war on her erstwhile sparring partner, fills the play's final minutes with haze and glare and an eerie, slow-motion duel. The end brings wholly unanticipated griefs to the apparent survivors. Yet there is no comforting afterglow of justice or even vengeance -- only the acrid residue of wanton agony...