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...most widely used coloring in food and cosmetics. FDA officials conceded that there was no proof that the dye was unsafe but contended that manufacturers could not prove it was safe-even though the substance had been used for 100 years under the name of amaranth. The decision raised eyebrows but no great storm of disapproval, because substitutes were available. The response to the saccharin ban was different, since in 1969 the FDA banned cyclamates, the only other artificial sweetener that had been widely added to food...
...commotion of Koch's jouncing, rhymed octaves (following the rhythm of Byron's Don Juan) are Ko, a young Japanese pitcher who earns a tryout with the Dodgers and throws with such force that he shatters grandstands: Dog Boss, a financier who has cornered the pooch market; Amaranth, the king of England; a nameless but enchanted fish; and Huddel, a cockney. The cast might have come from the nightmare of a blintz-tormented sorcerer, and its actions provide no political, religious or metaphysical insights...
...metaphysical insight here, after all) Koch observes that their bodies are "almanacs to teach . . . the poet how to shape his lines. The woodsman what is lacking in the pines." All manner of things happen to the author's creatures; Ko pitches a perfect game, King Amaranth decides that England's girls should undrape too, and several characters turn into statues. Analyzing these events is no more profitable than dissecting a soap bubble, or trying to explain a minor character named Higby, who "wears a wig be-/Cause he has no hair at all beneath/The wig he wears because...
...undistinguished painting that for centuries had hung over the main altar. Preliminary cleaning flaked away the overpainting, revealed a lovely eye, "long, sweet and melancholy." Shipped to Rome's Restoration Institute, the painting has been carefully worked over for the past seven months. The Madonna which emerged, with amaranth-red robe, gilt-edged blue veil and glittering gold medallion is judged by critics the finest Martini oil painting known. Nonagenarian Renaissance Critic Bernard Berenson, who once called Martini "the most lovable of all the Italian artists before the Renaissance," said of the discovery: "It is certainly a masterpiece...
From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...