Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they slept. The gas quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...
Others thought it was a nuclear bomb or an earthquake or the end of the world. As word of the cloud of poison began to spread, hundreds, then thousands, took to the road in flight from the fumes. In cars and rickshaws, on foot and bicycles, residents moved as fast as they could. As in some eerie science-fiction nightmare, hundreds of people blinded by the gas groped vainly toward uncontaminated air or stumbled into one another in the darkness. Others simply collapsed by the side of the road in the crush. At least 37 people who had inhaled...
...small explosion sparks a fire within a local laboratory, releasing half a liter of toxic nerve gas agents through a broken window into the atmosphere. A warm summer's breeze carries the cloud of nerve gas past a nearby highway, motel, bowling alley, playground and disco. In a matter of minutes, several hundred unsuspecting people are subject to the devastating effects of toxic substances...
...gaseous cloud released by several tons of methyl isocyanate blanketed the Indian community of 900,000 before anyone could escape. In the event of a similar Cambridge accident, however, a half kilogram of nerve gas emanating from ADL would have "some impact, but nowhere near the effect of the thing in India," says Edmund Crouch, a Harvard physicist who lent his risk-assessing skills to the local advisory group...
...dreams, Romance Language builds up its head of hallucinatory steam only when the night is half over. But at full throttle, Playwright Parnell's mixture of historical figures and fanciful situations makes a genial noise. This is the land of vaudeville revisionism previously charted by Indians, Travesties and Cloud 9, where social satire speaks in the vocabulary of dreams-the mind's own romance language. It is a pleasure to see Cynthia Harris (Charlotte), Valerie Mahaffey (Emily) and the 19 other cast members cavort so merrily on the tabletop stage of Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater, complementing...