Word: venomous
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...according to St. James into a ponderous bestseller. Now comes a man called Peter Van Greenaway with The Judas Gospel. Agnostic Wallace wears a cloying, counterfeit faith on his sleeve in The Word's mawkish denouement, but Van Greenaway has the courage - and the talent - to spill his venom straight. The result is a brisk, tough and intellectually provocative novel...
...Journal by Dr. Harry Arnold Jr., a Honolulu dermatologist. His prescription: a quarter-teaspoon of meat tenderizer dissolved in a teaspoon or two of water and rubbed into the skin around the bite. Meat tenderizer, Arnold explains, is rich in papain, a protein-dissolving enzyme, which breaks down the venom. Arnold says that a dose of meat tenderizer will stop the pain of most insect stings in seconds if applied immediately...
...Sir/Could it be that I detect a bit of venom in your choice of Clifford Irving as "Con Man of the Year"? Come on boys, be good sports. Put yourselves on next week's cover under the title-you guessed it-"Suckers of the Year...
Though the newspaper is universally distrusted by thinking people in the state, it succeeds nonetheless in eroding confidence in leaders and institutions by its daily diet of innuendo, half-truth and venom...
...POLITICAL FIGURES still at Harvard have been the subject of as much fruitless controversy as Samuel P. Huntington. Accusing him of complicity in the U.S. war effort, Huntington's critics, here and elsewhere, suggest that he has supported or furthered American military policy in Vietnam. With equal venom, Huntington has responded that he could never have been involved in such nasty activity, and has impugned the sincerity of his critics. Others, taking a more detached view, suggest that Huntington's role will not be evident until the full written record of the war is available, but even the record will...