Word: curely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Post-Watergate morality has turned into mortality: this colorless, odorless cure-all "morality" is supposed to excuse the mortality of those events themselves. The overkill in the media has led to a numbing of the spirit. Nobody cares about Watergate enough to listen to all of the boring details again, and yet the record companies still exploit that tragi-comedy...
Economic medicine stronger than that proposed by President Ford is needed to cure our sick economy. Low-and middle-income families are most in need of a rebate on 1974 taxes and should be given a much greater proportion of this proposed tax break. Moreover, the entire rebate should be paid in May to maximize the help it would give to the economy...
...some people have accused the press of exacerbating the nation's bearish mood. They argue that the public wants some basis for hope and faith. We agree. But we also believe that economic maladies, like others, require thorough examination and sound diagnosis as the first steps toward a cure. As Vice President Rockefeller put it: "Problems and opportunities go together . . . I have confidence that we are going to find the right answers...
...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...
...irony is that many of the deaths that can be traced to high blood pressure are, in fact, avoidable. Doctors may not be able to cure cancer or the common cold, but modern medicine can now treat virtually every case of hypertension, from the mildest to the most severe, effectively and relatively inexpensively...