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...picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally are flinty, unrouged, splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag heap...
John Major, guitarist, in recital. Works of De Falla, Martin, Norman, Fricker Turina. Free. Saturday, March...
...testing the prisoners' food one day, an inspecting sergeant found that the P.O.W.'s were eating better than American privates, and Fricker was immediately requisitioned for the GI's kitchen. A Captain stopped in one day to test his soldiers' fare, and Fricker was promptly promoted to the officer's mess...
From there, Fricker was sent to the U.S. as a prisoner of war where he headed the kitchens at three camps near Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He was later sent back to Germany on a prisoner exchange, but within three years he emigrated...
...Fricker now spends his time thinking up exotic German dishes for his Stillman patients. Dumb waiters in the Holyoke Center now carry such delicacies as Rahm schnitzel, Beef Stroganoff, Wlenerschnitzel, vol au vent and falsan aux asperges to hungry patients. Fricker also cooks for Holyoke's tenth floor dining rooms...