Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WARNING, began the full-page advertisement in the Los Angeles Times last week. The ad explained that by the time anyone read it, two executives of American Caster Corp. would be in jail. The publicity was part of the punishment given the firm for burying 254 drums of toxic and flammable waste and dumping pollutants into Los Angeles sewers. The company also had to pay $40,000 in fines and cleanup costs. The two jailed officials: President Carl De La Torre and Vice President Ramon Garroba...
This after Arthur D. Little (ADL), a nationally recognized Cambridge research laboratory, launched a public relations drive to counter what it perceives as misleading press coverage about the firm's research on toxic nerve agents...
...scheduled a public meeting with local residents and members of North Cambridge Toxic Alert, a citizens environmental group, for March...
White Noise features a cloud of toxic industrial waste, although the author's larger concern is with death as metaphor. As usual, DeLillo mixes black comedy with a ceremonious tone: "The enormous dark mass moved like some death ship in a Norse legend, escorted across the night by armored creatures with spiral wings." The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill...
Unrelieved worry about self-preservation is one of life's more depressing preoccupations. DeLillo illustrates this sad fact and attempts to lift the dread with satire and comic invention. An expert explains the poison cloud that threatens Iron City: "This is Nyodene D. A whole new generation of toxic waste. What we call state of the art." There are lampoons (if that is possible) of occult tabloids: "From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.S. foreign policy. Mellowed by death, the strapping actor will advocate a hopeful policy...