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...were said to matter included a couple of sexual- harassment cases involving a six-year-old boy in Lexington, North Carolina, and a seven-year-old boy in New York City. Both were accused of harassing girls in their grade by touching and/or kissing them. The seven-year-old kisser's straightforward defense--"because I like her"--was deemed porous...
Wrong and dull, O wise one. And lugubrious. And sloppily written. And humorless. Not a laugh in a carload. Somebody send author Hoeg a Fawlty Towers tape! Somebody hit that ape in the kisser with a custard pie! And in your shiny fur, is that a flea I see--that Hoeg, in his solemnity, has missed...
...about its subjects' identities. In 1980 Edith Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt admitting to being the nurse. But who was the sailor? Last week in the Wall Street Journal the Rev. George Byron Koch of West Chicago, Illinois, recounted the claim of his parishioner, Jim Reynolds, that he was the kisser--but that the photo was "a journalistic deception," posed and taken on V-E day, May 8, 1945, not V-J day, Aug. 14, 1945, when dress whites would have been the uniform. Now a security guard, Reynolds, 75, says he previously kept quiet out of deference to his recently...
...belated restoration of Oskar Schindler. In Israel, where he is buried, Schindler was a hero. In Poland, where he connived to save lives, he was a footnote in a history book. In Germany, where he was once sued for punching a man who called him a "Jew kisser," he was an embarrassment to all those who knew something and did nothing. And because amnesia is the most convenient placebo for collective guilt, Schindler was essentially a nonperson. In the '70s Artur Brauner, a German Jew, tried to make a movie about Schindler but could not raise the money. Now, with...
...little majesty and a lot of mystery. He remains that way to Liam Neeson, the screen Schindler. "I still don't know what made him save all those lives," says Neeson, 41. "He was a man everybody liked. And he liked to be liked; he was a wonderful kisser of ass. Perhaps he was inspired to do some great piece of work. I like to think -- and maybe it comes across in the film -- that he needed to be needed...