Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poisoning, made no headway against the frogs. The only chance left, says James St. Amant, supervisor of the state department of fish and game, is to find "a critter that'll feed on them." That may be difficult since the frog's skin apparently contains a toxic venom and tastes awful. Even an alligator passed up a dish of clawed frogs-legs...
Still, Sellon does a fine job with this thankless role. His singing voice, while not particularly strong or melodious, suits his characterization to a tee. Sellon delivers the most sarcastic lines in the play with venom, and is just as effective when silent. He has a talent mime, and his supple movements and flexible facial expressions give Littlechap the humanity that the scripted character lacks. During the final minutes of the show, Sellon all but convinces the audience that this Littlechap isn't such a bad sort, after...
...another community fight against Radcliffe's proposed gym on Observatory Hill. Her objectives is to get a piece of legislation before the state legislature by December 1, which will change the law and make Harvard conform to zoning regulations. Though the squabble appears to be missing the same venom which surrounded the Kennedy Library fight, the outcome is undetermined...
...know--all the venom has drained from me this week; I think I'll just let the above parable stand by itself, and let you come running back for more and better abuse next week. This week, it's just the same old boring array of silly rock concerts; I write about them, you rarely go to them...
...Lappe and Collins reserve most of their venom for foreign corporations who own land in the Third World, and gear their production to high-income consumers overseas. These corporations, a spreading phenomenon, concentrate on growing luxury foodstuffs for the consumers of the western world rather than on feeding the poor peasants who live next to the plantations. Examples of the effects of such profit-maximizing morality abound, and Lappe and Collins use them unsparingly in their effort to persuade their readers. In Mexico, land that once grew corn for peasants' diets is now used for strawberries and flowers...