Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annie is an abandoned child of the cruel Depression era. She is incarcerated in a kind of kids' San Quentin where the whisky-swigging warder, Miss Hannigan (Dorothy Loudon), mistreats her charges with fiendish glee. Loudon brings a hammy leering venom to the part that releases howls from playgoers, though her performance will surely appall any admirer of acting restraint...
...radical "Gang of Four"* accused of attempting to seize power after Mao's death last September, Chiang Ch'ing is pictured as a scheming empress of days long past. Alternatively she is depicted as a treacherous snake in woman's dress, a harridan spitting venom and a wily warrior wielding a spiked club. Perhaps most shocking to the puritanical Chinese are caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing as a trollop. In one of many variants on this theme, she is shown reclining on a divan decorated with dollar signs, her skirt hiked up, while...
...arose that burning was exactly what she had done with it. Gone was the somber exuberance of such earlier triumphs as Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. The froth turned sour and her amused awareness of human daffiness was drowned in simple venom. The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Spark's deft parody of Watergate set in an English convent, gave reason to hope that all was not lost. The Takeover proves that nothing has been lost...
...Brady Bunch was preempted that afternoon of Aug. 24: Allan T. Howe was on the courthouse steps spitting venom. One reporter asked Howe if he had ever had a girlfriend in the Four Corners area--the site of the controversial Kaiparowits power plant. Howe started to answer but was cut off by his wife's vehement reply: "Of course he had a girlfriend. Me!" His attorney said that such questions are the reason Howe can never get a fair trial in Utah. The reporter tried to ask another question, but Howe interrupted to ask what paper he was from. When...
Several days later, venom once again spewed from Salt Lakers' television sets. Howe's attorney railed at those who had "hounded" Howe into taking a lie detector test, defiantly producing the results of a lie detector that said that Howe was telling the truth. Mrs. Howe quoted the scriptures and suggested that others look to their own homes before criticizing her husband...