Word: venomous
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...national horizon as strapping (6 ft., 196 lbs.) Herman Eugene Talmadge, 43, segregationist and isolationist, takes the seat of one of the U.S.'s great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave as an actor, Herman in his "tel-lee-vision" (as he calls it) appearances has convinced Georgians "that a Talmadge doesn't have horns...
...deafening loudspeaker system." The King's interpreter, "last seen in Washington in a fairly sensational convertible," now "kneels on the floor by his master's chair, translating his master's words with downcast eyes." Amid burning sandalwood, one of the King's advisers "distills venom against Palestine's invaders and all the West, in a beautifully educated English voice." Alsop's moral: "Although social notes do not generally appear in this space, the contrasts of the evening seemed to tell a great deal about this increasingly critical country...
...Female Venom. The men offered a grim antidote to sweetness in The Sentry, a Civil War episode seen on NBC's Goodyear Playhouse. John Gay's original drama told of an attempt by three Confederates to destroy a railway bridge behind the Union lines, and the beat-up veterans were given a grimy reality by George Grizzard. Frank Overton and Si Oakland. But Author Gay had more success in writing his strongly individual characters than in handling the quirks and coincidences of his plot...
...high-flown snobbery, demagoguery, pure assumption, suggestion, innuendo, and thinly veneered venom, I can find no equal to TIME'S April 2 story "Democrats...
...with an exterior compounded of confidence and arrogance. Yet underneath his surface the man is a coward, and his fear eventually leads him to hell. One of the two women, however, clearly belongs there from the very beginning. As portrayed by Charlotte Clark, her personality appears to contain only venom, with lesbianism as the motive force of her poison. Miss Clark does not always convey the viciousness of her character, but at its best her performance is a fascinating thing to watch...