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...salutary for a film to examine and embrace those anachronistic, ever-so-'60s extremes. Bliss wants to pose the biggest questions -- about life, death and the twilight state in between that passes for existence -- in the weirdest way. It fulminates like a bag-lady savant on the toxic dangers of technology and moral compromise. It has big, randy dreams about its hero's search for a bucolic haven on earth. Extravagant or exasperating, Bliss puts nobody to sleep. At its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival, more than half of the international press stormed...
...opposition to the Viet Nam War now employ these same techniques on behalf of business clients. Robert Beckel, Walter Mondale's campaign manager in 1984, has set up an organization with the grandiose title of the Alliance to Save the Ocean. Its aim is to stop the burning of toxic wastes at sea. Beckel's fee is being paid by Rollins Environmental Services, a waste-disposal company that burns toxic waste on land...
...study by doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health will be introduced as key evidence in a local toxic waste damage suit which went to trial yesterday, the study's authors said...
...during the waning decades of the 20th century. The embattled state must also try to reverse a disastrously declining birthrate, which began to slide with the growing acceptance of abortion and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in the bad old days. It grew worse after the toxic effects of various ecological disasters...
Some of Berger's stories cover standard topics of environmental abuse: pumping industrial waste straight into rivers until they are opaque with sludge, or a plant's 20 years of illegally disposing of toxic chemicals making groundwater poisonous. In recent years the frequency of such pollution has become all too clear. In Massachusetts alone, there are over a thousand toxic waste dumps that will take the next hundred years to clean up under current laws...