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...West Virginia's "Chemical Valley," has been a source of public concern for almost a year. Its output includes methyl isocyanate (MIC), the gas that killed 2,500 people and injured 200,000 when it leaked from a Union Carbide unit in Bhopal, India, last December. After that horror, the manufacturer shut down Institute's MIC unit for five months and spent $5 million improving its safety and production equipment...
LEBANON A New Level of Horror...
From the riddle of the Annunciation to the bloody sacrifice on Good Friday, the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church reverberate with two riveting forms of drama: the mystery play and the horror show. The complementary doctrines of faith and expiation set the tone for an ageold debate. To the faithful, the church is a magisterial edifice built on the miracle of mankind's redemption by a loving God made flesh. To the cynical atheist, it is a cult based on transcendental cannibalism: the belief that one can achieve salvation by literally consuming God in the form of the Eucharist...
...Sting, where is thy sting? For unfathomable reasons, the rock star has been cast as Dr. Frankenstein in The Bride. This is less a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein, the most joyously self-satirizing horror movie ever made, than a radical revision of it. In this version, the good doctor is no longer obsessed with challenging God for the secrets of the universe. He is now moodily in love with the mate (Jennifer Beals) he created for his original monster, who has run off with the circus. Since neither Sting nor Beals seems capable of full human animation...
...this useful work of reportage, Baker, who recorded the recollections of Viet Nam veterans in his 1982 oral history, Nam, gathers the gripes, boasts, rationalizations and cathartic horror stories of more than 100 police officers of both sexes. This is cassette journalism, immediacy spun from miles of tape, and because Baker does not identify the speakers or their communities, it is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. But the words ring true, even if it is fairly selective truth...