Word: curely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite all this Melvin, is likable from the beginning, mostly due to Nicholson's broad, compassionate performance. His soft underbelly shows through his sarcastic ranting, and the question is never whether Melvin will open up to others, but how. Thankfully, the movie doesn't try to cure Melvin's obsessive, gruff behavior but instead gently nudges him towards reciprocating emotion. Nicholson does more than manage to balance his character's conflicting traits--he makes it look easy...
Scientific ideas don't die, they just fade away into popular culture. Psychoanalysis is as dead a science as alchemy. But its central idea, that somehow catharsis leads to cure, lives on--rages on--in Oprah and Geraldo and Ricki Lake and the whole steaming psychic stew that is our confessional culture...
...President flummoxed by the dilemmas of race chooses to talk them into extinction. No dice. Talk is not a cure. It is a dodge...
...Quentin Tarantino film? Can Wag the Dog possibly be mistaken for a Snoopy holiday special? Does the 19th century Australia of Oscar and Lucinda have nearly the same Christmas kick as Scrooge's London? And Woody Allen, musing on death and betrayal--now there's the cure for seasonal depression...
Hair's the Pill You've Been Waiting For Get set for folicle frolics as the FDA puts the seal of approval on a new baldness cure. What's the down side...