Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire alarm triggered by floating dust stirred during the removal of asbestos in Kirkland House yesterday has raised questions concerning University procedures for removal of the insulant from food service tunnels and pipes...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink-sugar blond he calls Snowdrop, come into this mostly Hispanic neighborhood every Sunday to buy cocaine...
...high on cocaine, pills and a dash of angel dust, but knows his business. "Seven-Up best today, man. They starting to pass it out on Fourth and D." They walk over and join the waiting crowd as pistol-packing guards begin to herd groups often into an abandoned building. For two hours, the line moves slowly up three flights of broken stairs. There is the stench of urine. Flickering candles light the way. The guards order the buyers to face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives...
...have speculated that it may be the work of sunspots (the magnetic storms on the face of the sun that periodically reduce its radiation) or even planetary alignments. Currently, much of the theorizing centers on El Chichon, the Mexican volcano that erupted last year and ejected huge clouds of dust into the atmosphere. By obscuring sunlight, it may have upset the planet's heat balance enough to disturb the atmosphere and oceans...
...will show you fear in a handful of dust," wrote T.S. Eliot. The towering set that vaults above and plummets below the stage of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater shows us fear on the inscrutable face of a perpendicular wall of stone and ice, pockmarked by eons. The hand-held camera that scales Designer Ming Cho Lee's awesome set is the playgoer's eye, restored to a 20/20 vision of the power, mystery, majesty and menace of undomesticated nature...