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...many view the column as medicine they'd be better off without--and they consider Moreno a quack...
...moment, opponents of the amendment, like port-addicted Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, can defend their tenuous position only by offering silly one-liners ("It's a quack pill") and obscure metaphors ("It's as poisonous as the poison that Hannibal carried in his ring or Demosthenes carried in his pen"). That is certainly interesting language, but it does not constitute a valid argument against such a necessary bipartisan measure of fiscal discipline...
...highly acculturated is to play a tease: Don't you really prefer silly knickknacks to Poussins or Picassos? Don't you long for the paradise of childhood, before discrimination began? "Don't divorce yourself from your true being," he wheedles in the catalog, in the accents of a quack therapist. "Embrace it. That's the only way you can truly move on to become a new upper class . . ." One may be permitted to demur, especially when the call to regression comes from an artist so transparently on the make...
Madeline (Meryl Streep), an actress, and Helen (Goldie Hawn), a writer, are obsessed with their bodies. They will go to a quack doctor or a fat farm to get flat and firm. To find a potion that will keep them forever young -- a kind of Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain...
...sound and look like an educational revolution, but it sure won't quack like one. In reality, the proposals, a slight revision of Alexander's own America 2000 strategy, are empty, at times contradictory, and overall an ineffective recipe for improving schools...