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That is the least of his worries, however. Where the movie seems thinnest is in its symbolic attempt to weld Hurt's stagey character to Babenco's overriding theme about cinema as a kind of mental panacea...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: One Cell of a Film | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

Cambridge's solution is no "average" scenario, no paradigm panacea to be adopted by other communities, and we should be wary of spotlighting the extreme population density argument. However, the fact that the DOD regulations, the only federal restrictions regarding "supertoxic" chemicals, could allow ADL to begin such research in a city with so many people per square mile clearly earmarks these inadequate regulations for national-level overhaul...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: No Easy Solution | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...exchange is introducing many Chinese, for the first time, to a world far removed from the rigid hierarchy of the old dynastic China and the dated dogmas of Marxism. After a century of foreign humiliation and social iniquity, China in 1949 grabbed at Marxism as a panacea for national renewal. The medicine worked as a purgative but failed as a restorative. It is restoration that China now needs more than anything. After three decades of coercive utopian experimentation, a return to ethics, for three millenniums the unifying theme of Chinese culture, may help. Optimists will be warmed by an event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China the Puzzle of the New | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Panacea...

Author: By Thomas J. Wissiow, | Title: Judge Orders Cambridge Lab to Halt Nerve Gas Research Despite Appeals | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...women so as to balance numerically the tenured male faculty. Nor does it appear that a Women's Studies Program under whose auspices the different experience of women might be appreciated and our own voice heard is imminent at the University. Additionally, neither of the above is necessarily a panacea, curing all of Harvard's co-educational ills, of which sexual harassment is but one. Because no aggregate cure may be satisfactorily attempted, it becomes necessary to try to remedy such problems as sexual harassment on an individual basis. This piecemeal approach is acceptable as long...

Author: By Ann Pellegrini, | Title: The Issue in Perspective | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

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