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...toddler, he would eavesdrop on his sisters' piano lessons, and by the time he was three he was "a terrible little fiend" about music, screaming when his sisters struck a sour note, banging the piano lid down on their fingers. At four, he was performing at charity concerts, pressing his engraved calling cards on everyone he met: ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. It annoyed him even then that people always asked if he was any kin to the great Anton Rubinstein, and so he took to prancing around town with the words NO RELATION inscribed on the front...
...TODDLER ON THE RUN by Shena Mackay. 105 pages. Simon & Schusfer...
Despite all of which, to talk about somebody else, I think Michael Erhardt (Sganarelle) has Lithgow beat on the use of the hands. He managed, when speaking delightedly of the prospect of children, to so fiddle with his fingers at the level of a toddler's topknot, to suggest that he was plucking the little urchins' heads...
...trying to update the melodrama with an overdose of back-to-the-womb psychology. The motherless Finney washes away dark deeds by splashing in a pond or immersing himself right up to the nostrils in a nice warm tub. In one embarrassingly childish sequence, he regresses almost to the toddler stage. The camera pays more attention to Finney's tortured mental processes than to the all-important hatbox. The new Night trades a real case of creeps for mere case history...
...warehouse of U.S. companies were raided, banks were robbed, radio stations invaded. From rooftop hiding places, F.A.L.N. snipers fired indiscriminately on policemen, soldiers, civilians-anyone in the open. In the first volleys, a 27-year-old woman was killed, an eleven-year-old girl and a 17-month-old toddler wounded...