Word: sharked
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...Fish, particularly oily fish, can concentrate toxins in their flesh. The heavy metal mercury is a particular concern. Among fish with the highest levels of mercury: swordfish, shark, tilefish and king mackerel...
Larson's biggest fear was jumping the shark--in his case, literally. The thing that horrified him most when putting the collection together wasn't the amateurishness of the early panels or the subpar eyeballs, but the slew of shark-frenzy jokes, which were a little too close to one another. That fear of becoming a hack, in the end, is what made him determined never to draw again. The one exception might be a possible cover for the upcoming New Yorker cartoon issue, which his publisher has bullied him into. It's a better fit for him than family...
Critic Fumento hasn't let up. In a column syndicated by Scripps Howard last March, he took a penetrating look at the Beverly Hills furor. "Can you believe a California high school has suffered a shark attack?" he began. "How so? These sharks wear suits. Their names: paralegal Erin Brockovich and Attorney Ed Masry...
...stand up for Hong Kong and join the mass march. In fact, he seized every opportunity to do so. At a private screening of the Disney animated movie Finding Nemo the night before the protest, Wong was asked to talk about his Cantonese voice-over for Bruce the shark. Instead he shouted, "March tomorrow!" Wong seems to feel it's his duty to spur the public. As he says matter of factly: "I'm an icon of free speech in Hong Kong...
...little anxiety machine. When he learns he's to be a father--of 400 baby clown fish--he fidgets: "What if they don't like me?" But he's right to be concerned for his brood in the fish-eat-fish world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. A shark devours Marlin's wife and 399 of her eggs. That leaves little Nemo (Alexander Gould)--the one survivor, handicapped with an underdeveloped fin--and Marlin, burdened with an overdeveloped sense of dread. When Nemo is old enough for fish school, Dad's pessimism is again validated: the lad defiantly swims...