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Moreover, although Kissinger originally supported the cruise missile as a bargaining chip in arms negotiations, he now sees it as a Pentagon fixation, a nostrum advanced by the generals, in the senior official's facetious words, "as a cure for everything from cancer to the common cold...
Friedrich surveys the field of cure from traditional psychoanalysis to vitamin therapy. He treats such ravagers of the mind as alcohol, stress, loneliness and time. But he deliberately avoids the ruts of "quasi-scientific categories." He is more comfortable in the humanities, where the trail of insanity fades into the mysteries of man's relationship with nature and his gods. Friedrich is also up on the inhumanities: for example, the Soviet Union's practice of treating some political dissidents as psychotics...
...practice to cover my entire body, forehead to toes, with Vaseline," she reveals in a new biography, Doris Day, Her Own Story, by A.E. Hotchner. "I then put on a flannel nightgown and lightweight socks to cover my feet and go to sleep like that." The gooey cure poses some problems. She cautions: "If you're sleeping with a man, husband or otherwise, you are not a very appetizing number in this condition, and it's best to be in a separate bed on this occasion...
Equus. Peter Shaffer's powerful exploration of madness gets a fine production here, with stand-out performances by Dai Bradley as a boy who goes around blinding horses and Brian Bedford as the cynical psychiatrist who tries to cure him. At the Wilbur Theatre, 252 Tremont Street, through February 7. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
...strike a responsive chord in most audiences. McMurphy's other chief preoccupation is sex. There is a young boy in the ward named Billy Bibbit who has never had sex and has, apparently, been driven to psychosis and suicide attempts by a repressive mother. His case is the one cure that McMurphy attempts with "alternate psychology." He brings a whore into the ward and pushes Billy into a room with her for the night. In the morning, Billy's stutter is gone. The incident is typical of the instant cure approach to mental health that Forman is purveying. A good...