Word: wormed
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...moth ate words. That seemed to me a strange event, when I heard of that event, when I heard of that wonder, that the worm, a thief in darkness, should devour the song of a man, a famed utterance and a thing founded by a strong man. The thievish vistant was no whit the wiser for swallowing the words...
Korda dispenses breezy bits of office one-upmanship (jam a visitor's chair into a small space to make him feel powerless, speak softly to an elderly rival -it may make him think he is going deaf). Ringer's book is a heady parable of the worm (himself) who turned predator and earned a spectacular $849,901 in a single year of real estate wheeling and dealing. Despite the differences in style, the message is the same: death will come soon; meanwhile, there is nothing left to believe in but success and power in a cruel world...
Truly comic characters appear onstage about as often as there is a lunar eclipse. That is what makes the arrival of Norman, the pint-sized anarchist of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy, an occasion of happy terror. The most satisfying laughs are those induced by determined worms, and Norman is an Attila of the worm world...
...turn of the century, hucksters sold worm syrup and other nostrums to cure everything from rheumatism to cirrhosis. Back in 1908, the government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development...
Such problems are doubly disappointing because Kazan has tackled a subject on which he qualifies as an expert: actors. Sonny, 54, broke into Broadway as the understudy for Sidney Castleman (né Schlossberg), a much bellied matinee idol 20 years his senior. Now the worm has turned. Castleman is on the skids, sponging off Sonny while sneering at him as a "mechanical rabbit," a thespian technocrat devoid of true passion. To top it all, Castleman involves Sonny in a gang war between black hoodlums and a Polish mobster. But Sonny simply loves the old gaffer all the more...