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...role in the child's choice of handedness, while others maintain that heredity is all. Little is known about the problem beyond the fact that the left-hander must learn to fend for himself in a world that seldom pays any heed to his special needs. Production lines grind out an endless assortment of tools and equipment designed solely for the righthander, with only occasional exceptions for lefty. Left-handed golf clubs can be found, but usually they must be specially ordered; there are also left-handed ice-hockey sticks and baseball mitts. Sports, as it happens...
...about Food, Glorious Food. Oliver asks Where Is Love? Fagin warbles, "Can a fellow be a villain all his life?" Well done? Indeed. Appropriate? In doubt. Putting trust in sounds and forms, Bart has obscured the message of "that great Christian," as Dostoevsky once called Dickens. The "demd horrid grind" is gone. In its place is solid, canny entertainment. Purists and sociologists will object as loudly as Christmas audiences will applaud...
...Lebedev's daughter Zinaida (Elizabeth Hartman) falsely accuses the fixer of rape. The recriminatory shriek becomes a chorus when religious fanatics also accuse Bok of ritual murder. The fixer is seized and imprisoned. The . machinery of the state begins: moved by a heritage of hate, it tries to grind the fixer to dust...
...Zorba with him to Crete to operate an abandoned lignite mine, was played by Alan Bates with a pale, perplexed intellectuality that was a perfect foil to Quinn's animal magnetism. In this musical's stunted version of the part, John Cunningham acts like a graduate-school grind...
Recently, the most successful commercial products of West German studios have been what the men in Munich call Aufklaerungsfilme (enlightenment movies). In essence, these are illustrated hygiene lectures about the varieties of sexual experience, padded out to feature length with one-dimensional plots. Unlike conventional grind-circuit skin shows, enlightenment movies approach sex with Teutonic seriousness, even though their accounts of reproduction and related matters are illustrated with explicit nude sequences. In Helga, the first Aufklaerungsfilm to be shown in the U.S., a robust young mother emerges from her shower just as her towheaded son enters the room...