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...Institute for Deaf and Blind in Talladega. The films -- separately titled Blind, Deaf, Multi-Handicapped and Adjustment and Work -- teem with affecting, carefully assembled detail. A little blind girl, new cane in hand and helped by a teacher, gropes through the hallways in search of a children's drinking fountain. "I deserved a drink of water for that, didn't I?" she chirps after finally taking a sip. Disabled adults are trained in sewing and other rudimentary work skills. Children with motor handicaps struggle to master tasks like folding a washcloth or negotiating the spout of a milk carton...
...repressive emigration policies. Result: the Soviets have turned to West Germany, Japan and other industrial partners for investment capital and production expertise. Says Donald Kendall, chairman of the executive committee at PepsiCo, which operates 25 bottling plants in the Soviet Union: "They found that we're not the only fountain of knowledge." Since 1972, Soviet trade with the West has surged from $7 billion to $41 billion. But American companies accounted for only $2 billion of that business last year, and more than half the U.S. trade involved grain sales...
Predock's own favorite residential work is the Fuller House, a more dramatic faux village finished two years ago in the high Sonoran Desert near Phoenix. It is more determinedly "spiritual," portentous, even sci-fi. "I like haunted, charged spaces," Predock explains. Inside is a polished black granite fountain from which water runs in a narrow, razor-straight canal outdoors, across a plaza and into a circular pool. There is a pavilion for watching sunrises at the east end, another for staring at sunsets in the west. The study is a stepped pyramid of volcanic stone, topped with a skylight...
...principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child would fit comfortably into a Hollywood idyll, past or present, where kids are expected to have reality-resistant minds and hang out forever at the soda fountain of youth...
...effects (a boy blowing a train whistle, a man whinnying like a horse) suffice to define the space and locate the scene. With a minimum of identifying costume, actors shift character: when the young lovers (Daniel Nathan Spector and Louise Roberts) have a first tentative date at a soda fountain, Holbrook abruptly becomes the attendant who serves them. As Wilder points up through risible "lectures" about this archetypal town's economy, politics, demographics and even geology, what matters about its people is not the naturalistic detail but the philosophic essence...