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...appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
...cocaine - his dosage is the pun in the title - and railing crazily against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) tricks his friend into following Moriarty's trail to Vienna. There they find not the archvillain, but the only man who can possibly save Holmes: Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). All this uses up time that might have been better spent drumming up suspense or demonstrating some elementary deduction. When Holmes finally beats his habit and flies off on a new adventure, the entire case is beyond hope...
...Cheating is not endemic," says Johns Hopkins Dean Sigmund Suskind. "It's epidemic. My colleagues all over agree." Yale Dean Eva Balogh describes it as "rampant." At Lehigh University, a telephone poll shows that fully 47% of the students have cheated on exams, and at the University of Southern California, the student newspaper reports that as many as 40% have resorted to plagiarism...
Radical feminists regard Sigmund Freud as the ultimate male chauvinist -and with some reason. The master taught that women are masochistic, secretive, insincere, dependent and jealous, have little sense of justice and become more rigid and unchangeable at an earlier age than...
...first literary "discovery"-an unpublished memoir by Sherlock Holmes' sidekick Dr. Watson-pleased almost everyone. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution happily accounted for Holmes' whereabouts after he was supposedly drowned in the Reichenbach Falls. He was, of course, breaking his cocaine habit under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud. The pairing of these two clue masters on one case lent Meyer's pastiche a glittering patina of ought-to-have-been. Alas, Meyer has "found" yet another of Watson's tales, and it should not have happened to anyone...