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...spiritual ills. "I'm more in love today than on the day I married," he swears, "but my wife won't give me a divorce." Solution: wife swapping, with the intellectual taking over for the husband and the husband going off to his mistress. But the cure turns out to be worse than the disease. The intellectual's misery is contagious, and six weeks later everyone is even more wretched than before. In a frenzy, the exes reunite to get the suicide back on the bridge and into the water, where he belonged in the first place...
After Lady Macbeth's mind has cracked under the strain, Macbeth nearly throttles the Doctor for his inability to cure her. Gradually he becomes more and more disillusioned. When the last charm proves hollow and Macduff relates his Caesarean birth, Colicos does not yell his reply ("Accursed be that tongue that tells me so."), as usually done, but rather delivers it very effectively at a soft level...
Addicted to their habit, the compulsives are caught in a wheel of misfortune whose payoffs are broken families, lost jobs and bankruptcy-or, often, embezzlement. G.A. is making only limited headway. The "cure," which requires total abstinence and regular attendance at G.A. meetings, works in about only one case...
Though Frank died, L-asparaginase was shown to be a promising weapon against leukemia-but not a cure. The enzyme, which apparently starves cancer cells of nutrients that they cannot manufacture themselves, is extracted at great cost-about $15,000 for a month's treatment for an adult-from growths of common bacteria found in the human colon. Dr. Hill is still enthusiastic about the drug and will soon have an abundant supply of it for further trial. Milwaukee's Miller Brewing Co. is closing down part of a Fort Worth brewery and donating fermentation equipment for enzyme...
...simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted, and eventually, insists Miller, a Pavlovian association is created that makes the sofa itself a distraction. If the animal then proceeds to gnaw on the Hi-Fido, it is clearly psychodogmatic. A cure for that is to give it a belt on the behind with a rolled-up newspaper...