Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Based once more in New York City, she chases after a range of issues, including an educational system that she believes needs both some of Joe Clark's tough discipline and a lot of tender care. "After all," Simpson says, "we can't compete economically or find a cure for cancer or AIDS unless our young people -- all of them -- are given the skills...
There is old-maidishness and there is the new celibacy. And everyone knows the cure for both of these unfortunate conditions: a man. Any man. The good news about these two small movies -- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and High Tide -- is that they permit their heroines ambiguous triumphs over this conventional wisdom. The bad news is that neither movie dares triumph over the conventionally compassionate view of the women. Or, for that matter, over the limits of conventionally mannered filmmaking...
ECAC Update: How about a little ECAC summary to cure those exam blues...
Because there is no vaccine or cure for the disease, prevention is still the best bet. "I'd recommend that any sore throat be cultured," New England's Schaller says. Other experts are worried that parents and doctors too young to remember the rheumatic-fever wards of the past may not recognize the warning signs of a forgotten menace until too late...
Ackroyd sometimes overstates his satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...