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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effects, while Union Carbide had to face the complex financial and legal fallout from the disaster. Even as the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation set into motion its official inquiry, U.S. lawyers descended on the stricken city to help its residents file multibillion-dollar lawsuits against Union Carbide (see box...
...Indian officials began their investigations, details started to emerge about what went wrong at the plant. Methyl isocyanate, a colorless chemical compound that behaves in humans and animals like a potent form of tear gas (see box), is used by Union Carbide as an ingredient in producing relatively toxic pesticides known as Sevin and Temik. At the Bhopal facility it was stored in three double-walled, stainless steel tanks, buried mostly underground to limit leakage in the event of an accident and to help shield them from air temperatures that could soar to 120° F in summer. Refrigerated to keep...
...here; Mean to Me sounds as if it is being purred on a rumpled-up bed by a woman who has missed an entire night's sleep and is still bright-eyed. When I Fall in Love is both heartsore and heartfelt, Falling in Love Again a music-box minuet that turns into a full-swing romp, and the classic Billy Strayhorn title cut a cocktail lounge elegy of elegant despair. Barroom or bedroom, Lush Life is right at home...
...long and hard in coming. Lustrous lines ("If there are three girls running,/ there are three girls running nowhere") alternate with hand-me-down Ferlinghetti, sometimes even in the same song ("We walk in easy snakes/ through the roulette rattling of the ethyl"). In songs like Juke Box Fury, the music, jazz inflected and flirtatiously arrhythmic, keeps the language lofted nicely in the thin air as Jones' husky voice snakes around the lyrics. But the record turns dark in mood, and heavy. This is not to say that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems...
...rather poorly against the WCHA, losing 13 more games than it has won. "I'm sick and tired of hearing how good their leagues is," says Cleave "Clarkson, St. Lawrence, RPI their haven't changed their abilities," the Crimson mentor adds. A glance at the current national pool (see box) reveals four ECAC teams in the top 10, with only two Hockey East clubs, tow CCHA squads and tow WCHA representatives...