Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grow more incensed. The French invade England under the Dauphin's command, only to be beaten back. The nobles find it expedient to return to John's fold when they learn the Dauphin plans to kill them. By now the King is a broken man who dies of poison, the ever-loyal Phillip the Bastard by his side...
...swag to the airport has a malfunctioning taillight. Magicovsky was our last hope for some real excitement, but only modest suspense is generated by the encounter. Like everything else in this movie, it is underplayed and underwritten. Noel Black, who once did a curiously perverse little movie called Pretty Poison, is capable of stronger work, and so are these performers. Mere agreeability is just not enough to sustain a movie that has crime as well as comedy on its mind...
...standard of living, however, can crumble in different ways. Volcker's chosen poison is to take up inflation's slack by letting prices and business production outstrip the consumer's buying power. As Andrew Tobias has pointed out, though, the U.S. pays $65 billion annually to foreign oil producers, and that by far should be the chief target of any anti-inflationary program. Let the "living standard" that has Americans riding mammoth cars and wasting electricity fall, not the standard that keeps food on their tables and money in their savings accounts...
...need for maintaining Western unity was underscored after Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev delivered a speech in East Berlin marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of East Germany. Brezhnev warned that the new NATO weapons would "radically alter the strategic situation on the Continent," and "poison the international atmosphere." He singled out West Germany for a special threat: "It would not be difficult to imagine what consequences would await her if this weaponry was ever put to use by its owners...
...care less, because I know that wickedness is a part of human nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests prick me with their poison and hurl all kinds of calumnies against me. . . Dictatorship is the greatest sin in the religion of Islam. Fascism and Islamism are absolutely incompatible. Fascism arises in the West, not among people of Islamic culture. . . Fascism would be possible only if the Shah were to return or if Communism were...