Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot, if it can be called that, is harmless enough. One Don Pepe Hernandez, a would-be impresario in the tiny Honduran coastal town of Trujillo, has rented a decrepit nightclub with money from his uncle, the owner of the local Coca-Cola bottling plant. His show, which he calls La Parada de Estrellas, or Parade of Stars, is advertised as featuring "international cabaret stars," who turn out to be four members of his family wearing various transparent disguises. The play consists of one full run-through of Hernandez's show...
...itself. Portions of the analects slipped out to the west, occasionally capturing a philosophy in epigram, but more often adding flair to Charlie Chan scripts. Compared with all the politics and the bad jokes about "Confucius say this" or "Confucius say that," what The Master actually said seems relatively harmless...
...Christmas present found it juvenile, boring or simplistic. Psychiatrists, too, object to its superficiality. Many of them complain that it says too little about unconscious motivation and that it implies that a few hours of reading will substitute for years of psychotherapy. But generally it is regarded as a harmless way to invest $4.95. Says David Orlinsky, a University of Chicago psychologist: "It's cheaper than tranquilizers. Why shouldn't publishers as well as pharmaceutical houses make money...
However, Coulehan said he would not dissuade anyone who was set on taking several grams of the vitamin every day. "It's harmless and may do a lot of good, especially for people who frequently get colds," he said...
...According to GM, this "catalytic converter" will improve gas mileage by up to 13% and make cars perform as well as in the good old days. Shaped like a muffler and attached to the exhaust system, it will also convert hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into water vapor and other harmless compounds...