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- <text id=91TT1474>
- <title>
- July 01, 1991: No Breathing Allowed
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 01, 1991 Cocaine Inc.
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- NO BREATHING ALLOWED
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> Should works of art carry a government health warning? A
- piece being displayed at New York City's New Museum of
- Contemporary Art could have used such a caveat. When Eclipse of
- the Earth by Kazuo Katase was installed last month, the work's
- dusty red coloring agent contained zinc sulfide and barium
- sulfate. The chemicals caused severe respiratory and skin
- problems for some employees, they claim. A staff memo admitted
- that "ingestion of the pigment will cause illness, and the
- inhalation of the dust is known to cause lung irritation."
- Although the powder was replaced 12 days later, three workers
- resigned and a fourth entered the hospital for treatment.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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