Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safe side. In the past few years it has restricted the use of hexachlorophene as a disinfectant and banned chloroform for use in cough medicines and sequential-type (imitative of natural hormone cycles) birth control pills. In 1976 the agency took off the market Red Dye No. 2, the 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...
...that the agent charitably wishes to spare the world more banal dialogue. Or it may be that he wishes to spare his colleagues on the train any further embarrassment. Surely he, like the viewer, must wonder why Richard Harris, as the only doctor aboard, has been encouraged to dye his hair white-blond. And why Sophia Loren, as Harris' estranged wife, is working in a gray make up that makes her look plagued even before the dis ease breaks out. Or why poor Martin Sheen, cast as Ava Gardner's creepy gigolo, undergoes such unmotivated regeneration in crisis...
...them - that can be called "blender drama" pureed bits of other, better works. The ingredients of Jeff Wanshel's comedy, Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy, are Tom Stoppard, Jules Feiffer and Pirandello, who seems as essential to this brand of ersatz drama as red dye...
...Ellen Dye, an administrator for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Chicago, takes a 4 p.m. swim in the glass-enclosed pool of her apartment house and watches commuter traffic build up outside. One of her bosses, Lee Feldman, gets up early and jogs along Chicago's lakefront. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ted Stephens, an executive of Alza, a pharmaceutical firm, fixes a leisurely breakfast for his two children, drives them to their school, goes back to bed and shows up at his office as late...
...minus side, Flextime makes it tougher for supervisors to coordinate the work of employees who start at different times. It also increases utility bills of employers who have to keep offices open longer. But managers and workers agree that the freedom gained is well worth the problems. Says Ellen Dye: "It has changed my whole attitude toward work. People feel trusted...