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...hunger and its particular dangers cannot always be seen from the outside. Rickets may seem like a quaint problem, or the answer to a trivia quiz, but school administrators still know firsthand what it is like to deal with a child who is not getting enough to eat. Linda Butcher, coordinator for health services in Oxnard elementary school district, a California agricultural community with about 14,000 students, says that before her schools applied for the School Breakfast Program, students would start feeling sick in the middle of the morning. Instead of playing during recess, they would lie down...
Christina is a table/lap dancer with the looks of a beautiful ingenue (complete with wide-open eyes and school-girl uniform), and the cold precision of an experienced butcher. Impenetrable, enigmatic, she reveals nothing about herself, yet provides those around her with insights about themselves and others...
...Yorkshire butcher, Bennett may be wishing against wish for a good honest job that bloodies the hands. Instead, this Oxford grad with a fretful, donnish air is stuck with his reputation as Britain's most endearing man of letters. A reluctant star since the early '60s, when he beguiled London and Broadway with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller in the Beyond the Fringe comedy revue, Bennett has proved to be the surprise marathoner of that dazzling quartet. In his plays (A Question of Attribution, The Wind in the Willows), film scripts (A Private Function, Prick Up Your Ears...
Writing Home gives the reader a sporting chance at understanding Bennett; it is as close to an autobiography as this gentleman is likely to vouchsafe. And in its evocations of Bennett's early years, it offers a virtual oratorio of embarrassment. His father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery...
Together, the Brady family creates moments of incredible comedy. Mr. Brady delivers stupid speeches and Alice (Henriette Mantel) worries over her relationship with Sam the Butcher (David Graf). The drunken, horny Mrs. Ditmeyer (Jean Smart), always trying to get the Brady men to "mow" her "lawn," is the only non-Brady character who deserves equal accolades...