Word: asher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Name Is Asher Lev, Potok...
...when any of his female customers attempt to initiate him. Little wonder. Women for him are a mystery and a threat. They either overwhelm him with bloated lust (like one patron who smothers him in a bone-crushing embrace while passionately discussing football) or exploit him, like Susan (Jane Asher), another attendant at the baths, whose simultaneous taunting and flirting Mike finds irresistible...
...more than puppets in a savage Punch and Judy. The film's last scene, which is a frightening realization of one of Mike's most deranged dreams, should properly be shocking and pitiful. But it is singularly unsuccessful, despite the talents of John Moulder-Brown and Jane Asher, who are engaging enough to bring at least a small measure of humanity to a film that is otherwise frozen in its own misanthropy...
...about the intramurals two young couples play as they wander around England, Spain and Sweden. The characters are in their early 20s, but by comparison to the children in the other youth pictures, they seem to be drifting into senility, an impression strongly reinforced by their mummified acting. Jane Asher and Sven-Bertil Taube are attractive and easy enough to take, but Hywel Bennett looks like a cross between Paul McCartney and Elmer Fudd. Then there is doe-eyed Leigh Taylor-Young, an actively bad actress who improves only when she takes her clothes...
...book owes a heavy debt to Editor Asher, who reorganized the chief's verbal and written memories. Yet starting with Red Fox's recollection of learning as a child "to make a fishhook from the rib of a field mouse," the reader will rarely be aware of any white man's intruding hand. "I am not sentimental," says Red Fox, "but memories haunt me as I review scenes from the days before I was old enough to understand that all Indian things would pass away...