Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of lasting disability. They take a heavier toll of work days lost in industry than do accidents. Even so, total U.S. outlays for arthritis and rheumatism research come to little more than $15 million a year-as against $300 million poured down the drain in desperation for quack "remedies," ranging from diets to sitting in old uranium mines, from bee venom to honey and vinegar. The troubles are classified in four major groups...
Churchill could be a difficult patient. He was something of a hypochondriac, Moran says, "and he takes instinctively to a quack." Once, when Sir Winston was planning to join General Alexander's army in southern Italy, Moran demanded that he take along a bottle of mepacrine, an antimalarial drug. Churchill resisted, telephoned Buckingham Palace to see if King George had ever taken the stuff (he hadn't). Wrote Moran: "Winston is just incorrigible. He has only to press a bell to bring into the room the greatest malarial experts in the world; instead, he asks the King...
...everybody agrees. "Merrick is not the right doctor for this Invalid," says a producer. "He's a quack who's got the patient hooked on drugs." Merrick's critics-a cast of thousands-ad mit that what can be done by industrial methods, he does well: the package is attractive, the contents safe-but unoriginal. "The man's not creative," a director says. "He's a packager and an importer." .All but four (The Matchmaker, Maria Golovin, Milk Train, I Was Dancing) of the 19 Merrick shows that originated in America were musicals or comedies with more Merrick than merit...
...present some enactment of the central mysteries of Christianity. Arthur is "hermaphroditic Adam," father-and mother-of mankind, also divine child, also martyred divinity. In these terms, Mandala becomes not a dense literary puzzle but an obscenity. Arthur, the shaman of Sarsaparilla, is too monstrous to think upon: quack religion and genuine psychopathology are mixed up. White has written a mystery play in drag...
...plot is carnally direct. Mr. Horner (Stacy Keach), a notorious London lecher, has it bruited about town through his quack doctor that recent sexual misadventures in France have left him impotent. He rightly guesses that this will give him unlimited access to bored wives and unmatched opportunities to cuckold their husbands. The game is at least as important as the score to Horner, and he especially relishes the sight of husbands forcing their wives upon him under the delusion that he is an innocuous companion...