Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real Henry Fonda, who is suffering from a severe heart ailment, On Golden Pond was the next best thing to a cure. Despite having given some of Holly wood's finest performances of the past 50 years - in such films as The Grapes of Wrath, Twelve Angry Men, and Mister Roberts- Fonda had never won an Oscar...
...written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers have tired of hearing it. The result is that the author has gained a reputation as best known for being neglected...
Ezra is the dreamer who nurtures the novel's most enduring illusion. He runs a restaurant as if his soups and stews could cure loneliness and disappointment. The permutations of food and woe inspire him: "Why not a restaurant full of refrigerators, where people came and chose the food they wanted? . . . Or maybe he could install a giant fireplace, with a whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only...
Though Off the Wall by and large treats the Journal with respect, some harsher thrusts are directed at the paper's supposedly smug and selfish readers. One story reports that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism...
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