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Poison experts hope this incident will increase public awareness of mercury's dangers. Some immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean make a religious or good-luck totem by mixing mercury with mop water or burning it with a candle. Doctors believe that mercury vapors from these rituals may be slowly poisoning entire families, in a tragedy more far-reaching, if less dramatic, than the one in Texarkana...
...fact, Hollywood has been Bacharach's biggest promoter. The songwriter serves as a veritable totem of retro-cool in Mike Meyer's Austin Powers, in which Bacharach does a cameo singing behind a candelabraed piano that sits atop a Las Vegas tourist bus. His music is featured even more prominently--even if he isn't--in the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, providing for a younger generation the same kind of romantic charge, simultaneously nostalgic and bracingly fresh, that George Gershwin gave when he was rediscovered by the disco generation two decades ago in Woody Allen...
...think with a lot of student organizations, people tend to blow up what they do, not just people lower on the totem pole," Ha says...
...idea. Not that I haven't done it, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Section is the worst place of all, because the TF is the person that's grading you. Dozing off in a section that's not required is perhaps the lowest on the totem pole one can go. (And yes, I've done that...
...baaaack. After three jokey films (Last Action Hero, Junior, True Lies) that defiled the great stone totem that is Schwarzenegger, Eraser is a return to basics. The film, which had a troubled history and a humongous reported price tag of $120 million, could have been a fiasco; instead, it smartly remythologizes this indispensable Hollywood icon...