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Four hundred people were evacuated from a Harvard Medical School building and two researchers were taken to the hospital for burns after a caustic chemical solution spilled in a biomedical lab Friday morning...
...mixture of nitric acid and ethanol creates fumes which are a corrosive irritant. Nitric acid, a strong caustic acid, tends to bubble and splatter whencombined with certain other chemicals...
...script is at its best when it sticks with King's wonderful characterizations. With ease and humor, Kathy Bates plays the over-worked and under-paid housekeeper who has little happiness in her life besides pride in her daughter. Although her Maine accent is imperfect, Bates delivers Dolores' obnoxious, caustic lines with perfect subtlety. Shifting from a tired fifty year-old to a spritely thirty year-old every other scene is not a feat many actors can accomplish, but Bates skillfully ages Dolores' body movements and psyche...
...Rose's gripe with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals? Is it really helpful to refer to us and our audience by such hurtful names as "the entitled," "the bourgeoisie," "the glitterati" and "the so-called cultural elite"? We think not. Still, while we sting from Ms. Rose's caustic, painfully accurate Leninist barbs, we must remind her that the majority of students in attendance were--like herself--seeing the show for free, as the guests of company members, each of whom was given at least one complimentary ticket to the show. Although Ms. Rose seems to imply that the audience...
...movie by perpetually caustic Robert Altman is based on the director's mingling with the top dogs of haute couture -- designers, models, financiers et al. -- during one of the big pret-a-porter ("ready-to-wear") shows in Paris last spring. Using the movie's incredibly disparate and big-name cast -- ranging from Stephen Rea to Sophia Loren to Danny Aiello -- Altman goes after the glamour society's pretensions and pointlessness. But, saysTIME Movie Critic Richard Corliss, Pret-a-Porter "is a high concept poorly executed."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...