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They use a solvent, trichloroethylene, which appears to be harmless in normal use; but Dr. Richard D. Stewart and colleagues at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found that it does not mix with alcohol. After working for about three weeks with TCE, a man who stops at the corner saloon for a few beers or a couple of boilermakers develops vivid red blotches on the face. This degreaser's flush is so unsightly and persistent that men who wish to be rid of it have a hard choice: quit drinking or quit...
...ecologically sensitive program aiming at tough restrictions on such activities as offshore drilling and coal mining, combined with massive efforts to cut energy demand and develop environmentally harmless solar power...
...Atlantic City during a brief stand-down from her deathwatch, she holds the hand of a grossly fat woman who has spilled out her troubles. She suspends the usual fear and suspicion when a middle-aged man keeps intercepting her in the hospital parking lot to make pathetic and harmless advances...
...over now for another four years, and the winners will not noticeably earn for their country increased political prestige or an unwonted influx of tourists. Soccer remains a closed language, an alternative to politics, and perhaps after all a harmless substitute for war. For the aficionados of the working and middle classes, it is art, poetry, music, the sole palliation of the boredom of the office and workbench...
...this weekend at the Harvard Square Theatre, is a weakkneed romantical sketch about a sailor who falls in love in Seattle. Both the movie and its star, professional heartthrob James Caan, have all the depth and charm of a puddle. The only reason for going to see such a harmless piece of pudding is that its co-feature, The Heartbreak Kid, is passably good entertainment. This Elaine May-directed ditty takes a funny but not-too-tender look at a poor schmuck who falls in love, after a fashion, with a shallow American beauty, played to perfection by the evershallow...