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...claimed that it "has helped hundreds of Harvard students get better grades in their courses. We are now ready to serve you with our Notes, Outlines, and Liberal Translations." University Tutors made a different sort of appeal: "Midnight oil; loathesome toil." Another group advertised that "tutoring ....is not a crutch for the lasy or unintelligent bay, but a constructive educational technique...
...mother (Soprano Rosemary Kuhlmann) radiantly refuses the gold ("For such a King I waited all my life"). Crippled Amahl impulsively offers his crutch as a gift for the newborn child, and as he does so is miraculously cured. He goes off in the morning with the three kings to Bethlehem...
Last week, with the FDA's blessing, Antabuse went on sale for general use on a doctor's prescription. It is no sure cure for alcoholism, but it is a useful crutch for the alcoholic cripple. Antabuse experts such as Manhattan Psychiatrist Ruth Fox argue that the alcoholic's other crutch should be psychiatric treatment. Dr. Fox has used both crutches with 149 patients, and got half of them to quit drinking entirely and another quarter of them well on the way. But Antabuse must be used under a doctor's supervision, warned Dr. Fox: "This...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...
Despite its philosophical pretensions, the plays (small) dramatic effect depends on the frail crutch of the who-done-it: "Which one's the lunatic?" Even the outside chance that it might turn out to be Laudisi couldn't keep me on the edge of my seat very long...