Word: saccharine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Missouri Breaks Marlon Brando, as bonkers bounty-hunter Robert E. Lee Clayton, finally got paid ($1.5 million, to be exact) to thumb his nose at the world and, like some aging belligerent artiste at a cocktail party, to eventually become a public bore. Not that the script--running from saccharin to soporific to just plain stupid--gives the hefty Brando any leg up. Not does the film's only female presence, a cattle baron's educated, sensitive, bored and basically horny daughter who sums up her view of the prairie with a quote from Samue Johnson: "A blade of grass...
...restrictions came as a result of an Abbott-sponsored study in which a few rats fed vast amounts of a cyclamate-saccharin mixture, plus added cyclohexylamine (a breakdown product of cyclamate), showed some bladder tumors. Since that first study, other scientists have conducted studies on cyclamate in an attempt to duplicate those results. None of these studies show any cancer-causing effects from cyclamate. Although none of these studies were requested or paid for by Abbott, they are the studies that Abbott has submitted to the Food and Drug Administration to support its food-additive petition, which, if approved, would...
Quick to hop on the Watergate wagon, Columbia Records corralled the Senate select committee chairman to make a record for them called Senator Sam at Home. Result: a coup running over with homilies. Bloviating through 77 years of memories, Sam Ervin laces his bourbon with saccharin and recites his favorite lyrics-Grow Tall My Son and Through the Years. Moving to sterner stuff (our national anthem, the First Amendment and Rudyard Kipling's ode to the governing class: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"), Uncle Sam then opines that the King James...
...piece of machine-tooled sentiment about an adolescent's first stirrings of love and initiation into tentative adulthood. There is a standard form for films like this, and Summer of '42 seems to have been the model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe...
...mistake. Guilt and parental pressure may force him to bury his true feelings, but "hate in disguise is more dangerous than when it is open." A mother kicked in the shin by her four-year-old, for example, should not react with a hypocritical mixture of hidden venom and saccharin: "We don't kick people, do we? Say you are sorry, darling." Instead, she should vent her feelings honestly and shout at the child "or even swat...