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...turns out that the placebo effect is especially powerful in Parkinson's disease. That's why Curt Freed at the University of Colorado and Stanley Fahn at Columbia University decided to create a control group whose members could be fooled into thinking they were getting the full surgical treatment. "When you have something as major as surgery," says Fahn, in defense of his experiment, "wouldn't it be best to know there was some benefit...
...costumes were to this film. Sandy's work is impeccably rich." Powell's best move in Goldmine, albeit the quietest, is ensuring that rock-star Brian Slade, the film's lead character, never looks all that different offstage than he does when he's performing. His lover and rival Curt Wild opts for black behind the scenes, but Slade believes in glam-rock's life-as-spectacle ethos more passionately than anyone else, and this is reflected in his daywear--all fuchsia and wild prints...
Stratfor merits more than just a curt dismissal. The company used the same techniques to accurately forecast the economic crisis in Asia as well as the social and political troubles in Indonesia, the 1998 India-Pakistan nuclear standoff, and the 1998 rapprochement between Iran and the U.S. Stratfor has missed a few calls--most notably predicting that the euro would flop--but its gritty analysis has already won 15,000 subscribers to its free website...
...Jones?" as a blatant challenge. Even the heckler, accusing him of personifiying Judas, could not stop Dylan. He turned to the Hawks, and uncharacterlistically cursed, "Play fuckin' loud!" They then ended the show with a eight minute noise-fest of "Like A Rolling Stone." A quick and curt thank-you and he disappeared off stage and into legends. Ungratuitous subliminal message: Buy this album, it will change you life! Other songs include "She Belongs To Me," "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down," and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues...
...tempting to chalk up the lockout to the trendy labor strife that has hung over professional athletics ever since Curt Flood and Marvin Miller helped bring us free agency back in 1974. We know-the players are greedy, the owners are greedy and the fans are underappreciated. Let them fight it out, let us complain and then let's play ball...