Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reward is a scholarship to an adult-education institution where the Communists offer ideological instruction to workers who have the potential to become party functionaries. She is such a sweet, shy thing, and the school is so cold and so crowded with dominating personalities, that one thinks for a time that the film will be about how a waif's spirit was crushed. This plot line seems to be especially possible when she develops an infatuation for her principal instructor, who is married...
...open face and a straightshooting manner that is extraordinarily winning. She is bright, wry, self-amused without being selfabsorbed. Jameson Parker, as a blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist, he is as active as he was passive in the ear lier film. One begins to think he overdoes the part, but it may be that...
...particularly diabetics and the obese-who use the sweetener. Rats are not people, they said, and anyway the risk seemed small. Congress responded by putting off the ban for 18 months, then delayed it again while consumers, only slightly concerned, continued their saccharin binge. Last week they heard some sweet news. Two new studies gave saccharin a nearly clean bill of health and probably ensured that the FDA ban would never take effect...
...Crowds swamp the downtown area, some of which is closed off to traffic, throughout the day, giving the city a liveliness foreign to anywhere in the United States. One of the largest communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...
...underneath, caused the dense smokiness in the room. The anaesthetized audience basking in the glow of red lights sat on overstuffed leather loveseats or leaned against the walls. At the bar, wine cost four marks; all other drinks cost six. Jon soon reappeared, and he bought us both something sweet. Margrit's friend, a pianist, asked us to come to his private recital the next day, and invited us for tea beforehand...