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IRONICALLY, CARTER has resorted to flag-waving in order to hide his domestic failures, when solutions to these very problems--particularly that of energy--would best cure America's foreign policy headaches in the Persian Gulf. The region is a vital American interest only because American greed has made it so. To impose an emergency energy plan, complete with gasoline rationing, would be a far stronger policy than to reinstitute draft registration...
...left untouched after patrons had ogled the floor show went back into the bottle for the next customer. Some of the drinks wound up with more mileage on them than the hoofers in the chorus line. Last week MGM paid $125,000 to settle the charges, presumably a permanent cure for tired drink...
...Composer Igor Stravinsky, Rubinstein shows him how to make more money (go on tour as a pianist and conductor of his own works) and how to cure his impotence (have a good dinner and visit a brothel). What he cannot do is persuade Stravinsky to write lyrically for the piano instead of percussively. The Russian was a master of his métier, Rubinstein concludes, but he lacked "an original melodic invention...
...TIME poor Mr. Spoon leaves his doctor's office to "enjoy" his last 27 seconds, he has passed through each stage with marvelous histrionics. In the process of denying the inevitable, he wonders why his doctor cannot freeze him until they discover his cure. "Freeze me!" he shouts, running to the refrigerator for an ice tray, then lying on the floor and dumping the cubes on himself. "Put me under a microscope!" he begs, then resignedly laments, "I could've played piano like Picasso...
...psychotherapy (me shrink, you supplicant) as almost anywhere else. This may be why you hear about so many shrinks limerencing their patients. On the other hand, you have to admit that Tennov doesn't much like shrinks. She's the author of Psychotherapy: The Hazardous Cure...