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TELEVISION FREQUENTLY creates a glorified American mythology, portraying applepie slices of the past and nostalgically recalling simpler days. Winners the "Kool-Aid" Mom, who gratefully remembers how her own mother used to serve tall glasses of juice to the thirsty kids on the block. Although these black-and-white flashbacks of Americans are tolerable in 30-second packages, their flat sentimentality cannot sustain an audience for two hours. Swing Shift, the film that professes to tell what happened when "the men went to war and the women went to work," completely fails to represent the dynamic period of World...
Director Jonathan Demme behaves like the "Kool-Aid Mom," only simplistically examining the entrance of thousands of woman into the workforce--an event that was to have a profound effect on the initiation of the women's movement two decades later...
...search of the Island's unspeakably precious jewel, the William Sapphire. They inadvertently bring along an evil pseudo-cleric. Missionary Position (Jon Shapiro), whose dream is to bring the Island and then the world into his mind-control cult. ("It wouldn't take much for a Guyana little Kool-Aid to start a religion here," he muses.) He teams up with the witch, the innumerable romances start, a noted TV personality emerges from the fountain, the Queen falls in love, and so forth...
...evening meal, eaten on trays in the mess tent beginning at 4:30 p.m., is sociable, almost homey. The Marines call it "supper," and last Wednesday night was typical: goulash and noodles, green beans and vanilla pudding, all washed down by Kool-Aid or milk. Afterward, the troops fall into candlelit bull sessions back in their bunkers, or head over to the company "club," a shanty where they watch videotaped movies on a small television set powered by a protectively sandbagged generator. Lights...
After two years of research, a panel concluded that the studies were sound. Other reviews were conducted by a board of inquiry made up of three scientists from outside the FDA. In 1981 approval was granted for aspartame's use in such items as General Foods' Kool-Aid and Searle's table-sugar substitute, Equal. Last month, describing aspartame as "one of the most tested food additives ever evaluated by the FDA," the agency ruled it safe as a soft-drink sweetener after no ill effects showed up in people who had consumed five times the recommended...