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...long been classified as a disease. The ancient Egyptians tried to cure it with the application of equal dollops of the fat of a lion, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a serpent. "Ashes of little frogs, applyed suddenly, cureth the Fall of Hair," promised another early recipe. Through the receding centuries, man has tried to treat the bane of baldness with elm-tree bark, watercress, onions, creosote, cholesterol and cortisone...
...with neo-Fascism in Producers. Underneath the comedy in Frankenstein, the doctor is undertaking the quest to defeat death-to challenge God. Our monster lives, therefore he wants love too. He's really very touching in his lonely misery." Is Brooks serious about all this? Maybe, but his cure for the poor fellow's isolation is to replace those circa-Karloff lug bolts in his neck with a circa-Courrèges zipper, and to have the heroine swooningly discover that his "ol' zipper neck" is not his only monstrously proportioned part...
...Alan Strang, blinds six of the horses he has been working with at a stable in rural England. The local magistrate, a woman of uncommon compassion but complacent confidence in official definitions of sanity, places him in the hands of a psychiatrist, Martin Dysart. The boy's "cure" is the center of the play--seeing it happen creates enormous dramatical excitement, and second thoughts about whether it is a cure worse than the disease are the legacy the author intends to leave his audience...
...report on allegations of spying within the U.S. by the CIA. At the President's request, the Administration's top team of economists and energy advisers also flew out to Vail to continue the intensive discussions that have been going on for weeks about how to cure the recession without worsening inflation...
...professional cynicism: that leukemia, like tuberculosis and unlike, say, cancer of the bowel, is a good literary disease. It offers a succession of intensifying crises, separated by weeks or months of remission during which the sufferer appears to be totally healthy and timid hopes of a permanent cure are raised. Surefire theater, in short. Such thoughts cannot be entirely dismissed, though Eric Lund's story must be considered on its own merits. When Lund's leukemia was diagnosed, he was a fairly ordinary 17-year-old Connecticut boy of the now apparently rare sort called "normal": tall, blond...