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...pressure not to disappoint the director. I felt I was a mouse and Ang Lee a lion." When first seen, Jen seems lovely but unformed, a dreamy adventuress, a spoiled rich girl with a skill to match her will. Gradually, though, Jen (or, rather, Zhang) reveals a more toxic, intoxicating beauty. Will she become a fearless heroine or a ferocious killer? Zhang, surely, is guilty of one crime: she steals the film. "She allows the audience to pour themselves into her imagination," Lee says. "It's not really her in the movie, it's you. That's beyond acting...
...Cesar Chavez's crusade to eliminate use of five of the most toxic chemicals plaguing farm workers and their families has been largely successful," Union President Arturo S. Rodriguez wrote in a letter to the St. Louis-based National Farm Worker Ministry, a farm worker advocacy group...
...campaigner, many of which came from trying to pretend that her birthplace of Chicago was an outer borough of New York City. It bordered on the sacrilegious to don a Yankees cap when she had been a well-known Chicago Cubs fan. It remained such a toxic moment that she couldn't risk taking the D train to the Subway Series to join in the purest of Big Apple moments. Rather than the usual grip and grin, she embarked on a listening tour, looking at times like Margaret Mead visiting the Samoans. A Big Apple neophyte, she bungled interest-group...
...students. Texas Gov. George W. Bush is hesitant to put lives at risk in military interventions in far-off lands; Yale students are hesitant to put their lives at risk in brief excursions through the streets of New Haven. Both candidates have emphasized the need for better cleanup of toxic brownfields; New Haven happens to be a toxic brownfield...
When she's not leafleting, Wellons works four or five hours every morning writing letters on the geese's behalf. She defends the waterfowl against every charge--from getting in the way of upgrades on the riverbank to being unsanitary and leaving behind toxic droppings...