Word: tonic
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...tonic effect of Jon Blair's documentary Anne Frank Remembered is to restore the human scale to an immense atrocity. It chronicles the daily life of a family--the Frank family, hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis--with a detail that never sensationalizes. It also gives a fresh perspective to the martyred teenager the world knows as Anne Frank...
...MOLIERE COMEDIES Hard to imagine a better actor of the great French dramatist's work than Brian Bedford or a better translator than Richard Wilbur. This Broadway revival was a tonic reminder of how compatibly elegance and buffoonery can be married...
...million or $200 quillion the studios ponied up, but a lot of us still feel taken. All those tough-guy movies wore us down and knocked one another out. But now that the big boys have slunk away, adventurous viewers are seeking a late-summer tonic in independent cinema...
...terms of weight, it may have gained in mobility. There's a beautiful wedding fete, for instance, in which even the food takes wing, and an appealingly somber/silly march. Indeed, at times Chronicle looks and sounds positively resuscitative: this colorful show, with its percussive Latin rhythms, could be a tonic for Broadway...
California representative George E. Brown Jr.wrote in the Los Angeles Times of the follies ofscience: "The promise of science--a miraclecure--serves politicians, who always are lookingfor a tonic to sell to the public, and it servesscientists, who understandably seek to preservetheir elevated position in our culture...