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...Final: Let’s see these gorillas do crank...
These shows aren't complete throwbacks. Family Affair is helped by Tim Curry's updated take on the butler, Mr. French, whom he plays as a crank who knows and cares nothing about children. ("I also have a great deal to learn about wolves and dirigibles," he snarls, "and little interest in learning it.") And on each we see how "family friendly" has changed. The hot daughter in Rules walks around with visible bra straps and thong straps; on Family Affair, after the kids ruin Uncle Bill's date, he sees them jumping on their new bed and says, "Testing...
...words are flattened by Hewitt's Aussie twang. It's the intensity with which they are delivered. Sometimes there's a variation, such as "C'mooannn, Rocky!", a salute to Hewitt's fictional fighting hero Rocky Balboa. He carries a dvd of Rocky IV on the road to crank himself up, although that seems unnecessary, considering the passion he puts into his game. "It helps me when I show some emotion out there," says Hewitt, 21. Emotion, even if it's negative, he says, "gives my opponent a bit of a snit...
Although he once enjoyed great influence, Szasz is usually dismissed as a crank these days. His foes say he opposes all psychiatry or that he wants to free even incompetent patients who can't feed themselves. Neither is true. But at a time when psychiatry's power has grown dramatically--when it seems normal to grow up taking Ritalin and then graduate to Prozac, when even shyness is treated with pharmaceuticals--his views are worth revisiting. And the Yoder case offers an ideal venue in which...
MUSCLE POWER Here's a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem of the cell-phone battery that dies without a car or a wall plug in sight. Motorola's FreeCharge windup charger ($80; available this summer) lets you generate electricity with your upper-body strength. Just crank the handle for 30 sec., and the charger converts that mechanical energy into enough juice to power a cell phone for five minutes. Special adapters that fit other popular phones are sold separately...