Word: saccharin
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Like an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin, the Great Human Interest Saga of Andrew Wyeth and Helga Testorf, the German nymph of Chadds Ford, Pa., came roaring down the narrow defiles of silly-season journalism and obliterated the meager factual content of the story. Here, one learned, was a treasure, a secret cache of hundreds of paintings and drawings of a mystery blond done between 1971 and 1985 by America's dynastic culture hero, unbeknown to his wife, never exhibited, possibly the record of a love affair, bought en bloc for millions by a neophyte collector...
...result Allen has created a film which is neither very amusing nor very thought-provoking. Indeed, it is difficult to see what Allen was hoping for with Radio Days. The bleak seriousness that he offered as proof of his new maturity in Interiors gives way in Radio Days to saccharin nostalgia, the type of forlorn longing for the `good ol' days' that could most generously be labelled "poignantly...
...When the American public became more interested in their health, less interested in sugary drinks, they turned to alternative liquids for refreshments. The soft drink companies had the choice of alternatives to pursue, and chose to respond to the needs of the people and search for a sugar substitute. Saccharin was found, but it was later discovered to cause cancer. The soft drink companies did not withhold this information from the public; rather, they began a search for another artificial sweetener, which led to NutraSweet. The soft drink companies needs were sympathetic to the changing needs of the American diet...
...controversy over saccharin, which is produced by Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams, began in 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration linked extremely large doses of the artificial sweetener to bladder cancer in laboratory animals. As a result, the FDA proposed that the use of saccharin be outlawed. Congress thwarted the agency's move by giving the product an exemption from a federal law that prohibits the sale of any substance found to cause cancer in animals or humans. That reprieve ran out last month...
Despite the congressional action, saccharin is expected to continue losing sales to aspartame, an artificial sweetener manufactured by G.D. Searle and sold under the trade names NutraSweet and Equal. Although more expensive than saccharin, aspartame is preferred by many people because it tastes more like sugar. Aspartame sales reached $585 million last year, while saccharin's were estimated at less than $100 million...