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...HANNA...
...survive? the Israeli lawyer is asked. "Like everyone else in this country: with passion. Passions." Hanna K. is a passionless film about passions - the Israelis' passion to endure while surrounded by the barbed wire of Arab hostility, the Palestinians' passion to reclaim their homeland, the passion of one woman for justice and a fair measure of self-respect. Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh) is an American Jew who has come to Israel to practice law. Her first major client, a young Palestinian (Muhamad Bakri) caught sneaking into Israel, is attempting to secure legal right to the house he lived...
...they lie to you?). And yet, the film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna K. does boast what may be a film first: an infant's circumcision, in closeup. It is not the only moment in the movie when the viewer is provoked to sit up and wince...
...Hanna M. Hastings, Co-Master of North House, has been appointed Acting Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the School of Public Health (SPH). She is already familiar with her new job, having worked closely with her predecessor Dean Marlene MacLeish, who resigned last summer for personal reasons...
...well. "You'll find it tough guessing our gender," they sing at the beginning, and half the fun is telling one sex from the other. David Engel, for example, was a football player in the film of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. In La Cage he is Hanna from Hamburg, a blond beauty with a taste for sadomasochism. "A stagehand in Boston saw me in my wig, leotards and whip," says Engel, "and said, 'Honey, you can whip me any time...