Word: treating
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...After all, he had agreed to take over the problem-plagued movie partly because of Brando. "He's a genius," raves Frankenheimer. "He sees things so clearly." As for Brando's famously mercurial ways (e.g., needing to be fed lines), he says, "You don't work with Brando and treat him like an extra...
Romance languages concentrators, by the way, will find the French, Spanish and assorted combinations of the two to be a real treat. Everybody else will have to deal with subtitles...
...movie also has a pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...
...great state of New York gives its college-aged students a real treat each summer. Sandwiched neatly in between the phone bill and "New York Magazine" in the mailbox, many a youngster finds a thin, seemingly innocent envelope from the Clerk of New York County. But this little letter is far from innocent; it is a passport to days of sitting in hot, stuffy rooms with other hot, sweaty people, all in the service of the Commonwealth. Ah, jury duty...
...discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...