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LIKE A DEADBEAT WHO COMES TO THE party but refuses to have fun, Robert Smith, lead singer of the CURE, knows the seductive power of denial. Drifting over dirgelike beats and churning guitars, Smith's alienated lyrics and choked-up vocals have helped make the Cure the most accomplished and popular purveyors of British Mope Rock. On Wish, album No. 12, the band continues to fuse harmonic innovation with New Wave nihilism. Smith allows himself fleeting moments of optimism, and on one song actually uses the word happy. By the time the record closes with End, however, he has slipped...
...salesman. So superb that it amounts to a form of genius. Over the years, he has become far more sophisticated in his analysis of political issues, but he retains the glib salesman's tendency to reduce complex realities to catchy slogans. In the old days, he advocated, as a cure for poverty, teaching the Boy Scout Oath -- to do my best, to do my duty, to God and to my country -- to every child in the ghetto. Let's face it, it's not sufficient...
...characters in Paradise News are on vacation in Hawaii. They travel to forget their troubles and find a cure for their inherently British boredom and problems, but Bernard, Lodge's hero, has a different purpose for the packaged pilgrimage to this exotic island...
Thus the theme that emerges is one of transformation, of healing. The minor characters hope the sun's warmth will cure their ills; Bernard's family must heal a rift within itself. Bernard himself must try to reconcile his waning faith in God and to heal his loneliness...
...that Aleo does not use hypnotism as a truth serum--although once a customer did ask her to use the procedure on his girlfriend to find out if she was having an affair--but that she uses a combination of psychotherapy and hypnotism for more practical reasons. Hypnotism can cure insomnia, phobias and anxiety reactions. It can speed up weight loss. It can even help LSAT, GRE and SAT test-takers who are having trouble concentrating on those series of timed multiple-choice questions...