Word: curely
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That doctors can transplant hearts, but they still can't find a cure for the common cold...
...milks easy laughs from those classic villains, the know-nothing cab driver and the harried postman. To be sure, the film eventually recognizes its own faults. "We can't reach the working people," concludes one of the crew. But acknowledging blindness does not grant vision; diagnosis is no cure. Alien to the laborers it cannot hope to convince, preacher to the converted, Street Scenes is, in essence, no more than a smoothly edited student film. As such, it must be graded...
...proven quarterback. There is no fast halfback of the caliber of Ray Hornblower. Both lines have to be rebuilt. And with the exception of All-Ivy performer Gary Farneti, there are no experienced linebackers. Given the quality and balance of the Ivy League this year, Harvard will have to cure these deficiencies before it can even think of being a contender...
...staff spends little time verifying healings, because Kathryn has no doubt that they are accomplished. But in some remarkable cases, such as that of Venus Yates, they attempt to document the cure fully...
After five years of tests and medical treatment, including physiotherapy and psychotherapy, Fleisher's doctors are still unable to come up with a cure. Indeed, they are not even sure of the cause. The official diagnosis is that Fleisher's malady much resembles writer's cramp. But what started as an occasional feeling of "pins and needles" in the fingers is now a cramped condition in which the fingers curl into the palm involuntarily. In the past six months, the trouble has become so bad that Fleisher, now 42, can barely sign his name...