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...least 2330 B.C. and is depicted in a wall painting in an Egyptian tomb. It's a familiar theme. Egyptology figures in the credentials of a number of alternative remedies, as do claims that the British royal family are loyal patients. (The royals are said to be particularly fond of homeopathy, a system that treats diseases by administering tiny doses of the substances that might normally cause the same symptoms as the ailment.) "We're not just another New Age fairy tale" is also much heard. So says Marcel Lavabre, president of the 200-member American Aromatherapy Association, based...
...Southern tradition of Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell, earned high praise for a couple of books of short stories, Facing the Music and Big Bad Love, and a novel, Dirty Work. The new novel is clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...
Gray does escape to, of all places, Los Angeles. And Gray is near his wittiest when he rails sarcastically against the city. He is inspired by the view of distant hills, "that you can see on the seven clear days every year." Gray also becomes fond of "idea lunches," where producers want him to join them to "see if he has any ideas...
...nostalgic mood yet? If the opening of ABC's Homefront doesn't get you, try CBS's Brooklyn Bridge, a fond look back at growing up in Brooklyn circa 1956. NBC's I'll Fly Away, meanwhile, paints a moodier watercolor of life in a Southern town in the late '50s, just as the civil rights movement was gathering steam. In a medium that is usually more comfortable with the here and now, the timely issue and the hip wisecrack, three of the most ambitious shows of the new season are harking back to the past...
...networks are very fond of these low-budget reality shows, but one downside is that they distort reality for viewers whose only moral and educational influence is television. People who really want to be on TV might try to submit a video to air on "America's Funniest Home Videos," but would readily settle for a spot on "America's Most Wanted" instead...