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...PERRIER'S SIFAKA HOME Madagascar POPULATION 1,000 to 2,000 --Pressured by agriculture, logging and mining for gemstones, it may have vanished from one of two reserves where it is protected...
...moot point, though, because I don't believe concerns over water safety were really ever the reason people bought bottled water. Bottled water, along with cigars, cell phones and stock options, is a quintessential yuppie accesory. The always-questionable health benefits of bottled water (Perrier, the trendy water of the '80s, was found to contain carcinogenic benzene in 1990) might have been how you justified buying bottled water, but the sad fact is you simply couldn't be seen at the health club with tap. You had to have the right "designer water," as Gary Trudeau called...
...though. Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer and the screenwriters treat the original tale like a bottle of Perrier left too long uncapped; the effervescence evaporates. Fine actors (Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne) get swallowed whole, and the child stars are, shall we say, not swathed in charm. Madeline does finally face up to her orphanhood (a touching little scene), but by then the film is a lost cause, and Bemelmans' Madeline a lost soul...
...need, like food, water, adequate sanitation and a decent sports bar. The very idea that a nation as poor as India would so desperately want the Bomb is a sign that its national priorities are skewed. Is this how it intends to deal with poverty, overpopulation and disease? PHIL PERRIER Watkinsville...
...regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years. He was a nice guy, gentle. He'd drink Coke, Perrier, maybe a beer." Josie emphatically denies Paul was an alcoholic and says he appeared perfectly normal that night. "If he'd been a drunk, we would have known about it," she declares...