Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble) and expands it exponentially. His story has four gangs of four, and three other tough-guy twosomes, all trying to screw or do in their rivals. Since Tarantino revived the crime genre, it has devolved into a contagion, a virtual pulp affliction, of high body counts and low quality; it needed new blood, and not just from the effects department. That's where Ritchie comes to the rescue...
...film so tightly holds on to its sense of humor, its love of East End patois, its fascination with lowlifes and the low deaths waiting for them, that the carnage is mostly punctuation. The movie is as buoyant as a floating corpse in a clown costume. Or, as one of the "good" guys says, "A little pain never hurt anybody...
Watkins is the cool one; she sings low and buries her emotions. She received a diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia when she was seven years old, and she continues to suffer from it. (She became a spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in 1996.) The ailment, on her bad days, makes her feel as if she has "a big old butcher knife" stabbing into her joints. Sometimes, she says, the pain is so excruciating that she can't walk or use her arms, and family members and friends have to feed her. "The only two items...
...just hospital patients who are at risk. Many plastic products--from food wraps to toys--contain similar softeners, known as adipates. A study by the independent Consumer's Union found that cheese wrapped in deli-counter plastic contained high levels of adipates; some commercial wraps left low but measurable traces too. Toys--at least ones meant for toddlers--can be just as worrisome, since they may spend as much time in babies' mouths as in their hands. Whether any of this causes immediate or even cumulative harm is not known...
...activists are calling for the same step here. PVC manufacturers object, insisting that their products are safe and arguing that animals in plastic studies are given far higher levels of PVC than a human would ever absorb. In at least one experiment, however, rats were deliberately given low PVC doses and still showed ill effects. Abbott Laboratories, a PVC maker, admits there is too little data to draw hard conclusions; with some of its IV bags, it includes a flyer warning of that...