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Mixing mild parody with whirlwind farce, O'Brien quickly has Manus (referred to simply as "The Brother") escape to England and there grow rich by founding a bogus correspondence academy. Sample subjects: Egyptology, Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...
...world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis as various crises develop. Any assistance that this government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative...
Pointing to a number of weaknesses in the economy, including a persistent balance of payments deficit, shrinking gold stocks, and "a seriously overvalued currency," he suggested that the proper cure might be a devaluation of the dollar rather than the reduction of tariffs...
...loose adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. The screenplay has perhaps the darkest plot that has ever thickened. A young German (Max Schell) feels so guilty about his part in the war that he becomes a dope addict. Various women try to cure him with love, first his sister, then his sister-in-law (Sophia Loren), but not even that much sex can help him. He has a fight with his ex-Nazi father (Fredric March), then a reconciliation. Then both men commit suicide...
...several places and squeezing out through the cracks. Before the statue could be restored, the clay had to be extracted. This was done slowly and painfully by water jets and scraping tools inserted through the cracks. Then the outside surface was brushed, baked in an oven and treated to cure blisters and a surface condition that Greek archaeologists call "bronze tuberculosis." At last the kouros acquired a patina almost as soft and mellow as the one that first attracted Connoisseur Sulla, and the young man looks much as he did when he stood in some ancient temple. His grace...