Would that be frozen, canned, or on the cob? From a recent theatrical press release: “The production has all the ingredients, including a breathtaking juggling act, fan-dancing, tap-dancing and ample corn…”
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Lake Calumet’s “degraded landscape,” as viewed by consulting engineer Donald Hey in the Chicago Community Trust’s Trust Quarterly (Summer 1989): “Derelict industrial facilities cut off access to the waterways, and a number of solid-waste landfills mar the landscape. Toxic-waste disposal poses a threat to public health and safety. Adjacent to Lake Calumet, trash and litter are strewn along unpaved roads. The lake itself lies dormant, with underlying contaminated sediments. These conditions, remnants of the region’s industrial past, are the chief impediment to its future.” But there is hope: “At one point in Chicago’s history a very similar description could have been given of the lakefront adjacent to downtown: this area is now Grant Park.”
This news doesn’t fit anymore. “Percentage change, from 1987 to 1988, in the number of new AIDS cases: +8. Percentage change, from 1987 to 1988, in the number of newspaper and magazine articles about AIDS: -36” (Harper’s, August 1989).
Repels fleas, ticks, and babies. “Pregnant women should avoid using insect repellents that contain DEET,” according to Illinois Masonic Medical Center’s Teratogen Information Service (1-800-252-4847). This chemical, diethyltoluamide to its friends, causes toxic reactions in some people and therefore possibly in their unborn babies. Maybe this problem will still be around when Joe Scheidler starts looking for useful work.
