Word: scorpion
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...Utopia," forces him into a dangerous highwire bicycle act in "Rio." And in a romantic canoe ride for two in "Zanzibar," he lets Dorothy do the paddling. Crosby never apologizes for his dastardly doings, and the plot rarely smites him with a climactic comeuppance. He is the singing scorpion; it's just his nature, though he'll deny it if you accuse him. "You know, way down underneath I'm honest," Bing says in "Utopia." Hope replies, "Yeah, but on top you're a rat." That was Bing in many of his movies...
Just one reason to adore Jennifer Lopez is that she'll try anything--and she usually makes it look good. In movies, for instance, she has played a dead Tex-Mex singer (Selena), been hugged by a big snake (Anaconda), come at Sean Penn like a famished scorpion (U-Turn), swapped repartee with George Clooney in a locked car trunk (Out of Sight) and gone into a trance to nab a serial killer (The Cell...
Giant Israeli Scorpion...
Chlorotoxin, a substance in the venom of the giant Israeli scorpion, a 5-in.-long species known as the "death stalker," may offer hope for the 25,000 Americans each year who have glioma, an incurable, rapidly spreading form of brain cancer. Surgery provides only a temporary respite, and the few experimental therapies extend a patient's life span only weeks...
...great-grandparents. Done in bright pinks and magentas, the images more closely resemble photographic afterimages, as fleeting and spectral as memory itself. In yet another work, she merges silk-screens of her grandmother's face with those of various fossils, the two sometimes colliding in humorously grotesque ways-a scorpion husk masquerades as a facial lesion, a trilobite as eyeglasses...