Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closeup. Burton provides a curiously bland Dysart who lacks the high-pitched emotional constipation that both Anthony Hopkins and Alec McCowen brought to stage productions. Lumet tries to save the day by flooding Burton's speeches with melodramatic lighting and music, but no such makeshift remedy can cure Equus of its congenital limp. - Frank Rich
Rosenberg was right in labelling this view austere. While it is easy to admire the manner in which Rosen explores the simplistic view of humanity inherent to what he calls "fast talk and quick cure in the era of feeling," the book would nevertheless disappoint anyone seeking alternative avenues towards some brand of contentment. This, Rosen is quick to declare, was emphatically not his objective. Indeed, a fairly persistent theme of Psychobabble (one derived from Rosenberg) is that the intellectual turns answers into questions...
Early this month Desai startled a meeting of India's Tuberculosis Association by informing his audience that "self-urine" therapy was a cure for cancer and cataracts; he claimed to have cured his own brother of tuberculosis that way. In response to a surprised reporter's question, Desai acknowledged that "for the past five or six years, I have drunk a glass of my own urine-about six to eight ounces-every morning. It is very good for you, and it is even free. Even in the Bible," he went on, "it says to drink from your...
...world are still untreated. Late in 1976 the World Health Organization named leprosy as one of the six diseases that constitute a major health problem in the underdeveloped countries of the world. This is a disgrace to our civilization. We have the techniques and the medicines needed to cure leprosy, but their application to patients in need has been prevented by lack of funds...
...real achievement of this album lies in Paxton's ability to resurrect forgotten issues and to treat new topics. He seeks to activate an anesthetized generation, to cure the amnesia that threatens to destroy protest. If Paxton succeeds, his songs will long outlive a Timex watch...