Word: venomously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over lies about sex, the incoming Speaker of the House, Bob Livingston, resigned on the House floor because of his own adulteries, and the air over Baghdad exploded. So did the air over Washington, where the constant outcry over sex, lies, desperation and hypocrisy had created an atmosphere of venom and mayhem. All around the city there was a feeling that brutal, lasting damage had been done to an already threadbare culture of political accommodation, that impeachment would be not the end of something but the beginning. And that it would be something...
...hope your boy gets raped in jail and killed." The words, angry and exasperated, from an anonymous caller, burn into the ears of Jackie Golden, grandmother of Andrew Golden. For a moment she is too shaken to speak. "I know people have been killed," she says, trembling from the venom. She knows it is widespread. But, she says, Andrew is still my grandson...
...film even goes out of its way to give an example of a foil to Jessica Lange's character, Martha. The good belle, played to perfection by Schaech's grandmother (played by Nina Foch) gives a wonderfully spirited performance. She delivers the best one-liners and has the venom befitting a woman on the side of the good and the righteous, the legitimate...
...clearly become a three-cornered battle. Clinton's lawyers attacked Ken Starr; Starr continued his assault on Clinton; and Lewinsky's lawyer played the middle against both ends, by charging that poor Monica is but "a pawn in their game." Writing exclusively in TIME, William Ginsburg reserves the most venom for Starr's legal team, which he portrays as an incompetent crew who took the wrong evidence from Lewinsky's apartment and went into a frenzy over the Drudge Report. Worse, Ginsburg says, is their use of Linda Tripp's secret tapes -- which may not be legally admissable. "Starr seems...
...saintly Albert Schweitzer, who went out of his way to avoid stepping on bugs, didn't hesitate to shoot the beings whose distinguishing characteristics are a slithering gait, a forked tongue and hypodermic-needle fangs that can (if they belong to Australia's cobra-like inland taipan) deliver enough venom in a single bite to kill 200,000 mice...