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Ruth Brinker is grandmother incarnate, a balm of memories and sympathies. As she sits at the edge of his messy bed, the young blond man pries the lid off his dinner. An Italian omelet, roast potatoes, broccoli. The cramped hotel room actually smells of home. "Ruth," he says, "I love...
...music is a psalm and, for Philip, a therapeutic balm. In the final shot of The Singing Detective, Marlow the writer is able to walk out of the hospital in the guise of Marlow the slick detective. "He's stopped lying there moaning and suffering," Potter observes, "ready to deal with the world as a detective would -- tough-minded and able to manipulate it." In the pain- streaked world of Dennis Potter, that counts as a happy ending: hero cured, beautiful woman on his arm, and Vera Lynn warbling We'll Meet Again in the tuppenny jukebox of his soul...
...devastating appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers cooled. Comments Fraser: "Never underestimate the balm of sheer malice...
...campaign structure was altered to allow each member of the ruling troika to do what he or she does best. Sasso will become the dominant figure, mapping strategy and massaging Democratic political leaders. Brountas, who combines political inexperience with mature judgment and long friendship with Dukakis, will provide the balm of lawyerly calm wherever needed. And Estrich, who insists she is "delighted" by Sasso's return, remains in charge of the day-to-day campaign...
Words may be small balm in the face of pictures showing lifeless children plucked from the Persian Gulf. But there is something disturbing when a great nation finds itself mute in the face of its own complicity in disaster. Corporations are not expected to show soul, yet immediately after the Bhopal disaster the chairman of Union Carbide took the risk of making a symbolic pilgrimage to India. Personal gestures of atonement are commonplace in other cultures: the president of Japan Air Lines resigned because 520 passengers perished in a 1985 plane crash...