Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center of this optimism is a bold new approach to AIDS treatment called combination, or cocktail, therapy. It's a simple idea: HIV mutates so fast it eventually becomes resistant to any drug that doctors throw at it. Two drugs, attacking the virus in two different biochemical ways, can keep HIV off balance and make its evasive tactics harder--though not impossible--to sustain. But even a slippery virus like HIV can't deal with a three- or four-pronged assault. So said computer models, at least. But until late last year, no one had come up with a third...
Doctors first tried the treatment on their sickest patients. Not everyone responded or could even tolerate the combination of powerful drugs. But in a number of cases, the cocktail forced the disease into remission. Doctors watched in amazement as their patients' blood tests showed a precipitous drop in the amount of HIV. "We have seen patients whose viral load has gone below our ability to find it," says Dr. Paul Volberding of San Francisco General Hospital. "The question is, Can we keep it that low, and what will happen to the body with that kind of treatment?" There...
This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
...plot are mimed-out with plucky good-naturedness by the cast, which is completely dominated by its women. Deneuve looks so breakably pure as Genvieve, replete with little bows and white gloves, that even she seems relieved by her deflowerment. Her feline mother slinks about in tight black cocktail dresses and blood red suits, exuding sheer power via over-ripe sensuality and bartering Genvieve off to the highest bidder. Madeline, the 'plain girl' whom Guy eventually settles for, looks exactly like the goody-good martyr she is, with immaculately well brushed hair and the inevitable hairband. Measured against these luscious...
...that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute cocktail waitresses were known to snag bankers and lawyers...