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LOOK INSIDE| By Mike Shenk
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opposed by many
GOP politicians
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a scalawag
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equipment
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brand
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pseudopods
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compound
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personagePrevious Puzzle’s Solution18 Patient mover
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sister
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two-master near
the rudder
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bacterium, e.g.
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multitudes of
the addlepated
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margin
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road, say
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equatorial Pacific
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what one did
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position in the
lineup, typically
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launched with
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perhaps
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park
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publisher
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Springfield’s
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minister
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antelopes
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snapper
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a leash
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mention
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select group?
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singer
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voiced Dusty
Crophopper in
“Planes”
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Food” musical
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medieval
ancestors
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satisfaction
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hasn’t a maternal bone in her
body—a contention her son sees
no reason to dispute. But when
that son talks himself out of his
embassy job as translator—in Po-
land, he bangs on the door of his
superior in the middle of the night
demanding to know when the Brit-
ish are going to send help to the
besieged Poles—and finds a differ-
ent role in life, so too does Robina.
Harry hasn’t left Poland alone:
He’s brought Jan, a child of per-
haps 10 (an ever-compelling and
mostly haunting presence as
played by Eryk Biedunkiewicz).He’s the brother of Kasia (Zofia
Wichlacz), the woman Harry mar-
ried, now a soldier in the Polish
underground. So it is that Robina
ends up having to be a parent of
some kind to the young boy en-
sconced at her estate, silent and
longing for news of his family.
What kind isn’t certain, but the
question is among the most seduc-
tive of the golden threads woven
into this series.
The same can be said of her re-
lationship with Douglas Bennett (a
majestic Sean Bean), the bus-
driver father of Lois (Julia Brown),TELEVISION REVIEW| DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
‘World on Fire’: A War on Many Fronts
Families across Europe caught up in the struggles of World War II in this new seven-part PBS drama
the cabaret singer and factory
worker whose involvement with
her son Robina found unpleasant
to contemplate. But Douglas, a
still-suffering shell-shocked vet-
eran of World War I—and an ar-
dent pacifist, though one having a
hard time finding takers for his
peace leaflets as the Nazis overrun
Europe—clearly impresses her.
He’s an immense source of comfort
for the silent child in her house
whose eyes light up whenever
Douglas arrives. As, it’s noticeable,
do hers.
Another child is at the centerBBC/MAMMOTH SCREEN (3)of one of this drama’s darkest
themes, as revealed in the fate of
the Rosslers, citizens of Germany
who want as little to do with the
Nazis as possible, but who are in
no way dissidents. Their son
serves in the Wehrmacht. Uwe
Rossler (Johannes Zeiler) owns a
factory; his wife, Claudia (Victoria
Mayer), rears their adored young
daughter, Hilda (Dora Zygouri),
who is subject to attacks of epi-
lepsy. Exactly the kind of child
destined for special attention
from the state, whose obsessive
concern with the purity of the
Aryan gene pool led to the actual
annihilation of hundreds of thou-
sands of handicapped children
and adults.
This blood-chilling story begins
with the Rosslers’ growing aware-
ness that they are being watched.
By whom? Their aged neighbor in
the next apartment looks omi-
nously at them as she stands out-
side her apartment. Day after day
the couple’s confidence ebbs. Uwe,
an authoritative sort—seemingly
secure, a successful businessman—
comes home one night wearing a
Nazi party pin. For protection in
case of trouble over their child, he
tells his shocked wife. They’ve al-
ready broken the law—the one
that requires all German parents
to notify authorities of any child
with a disability.
One crime will
lead to another.
Uwe looks to
a friend of the
family for help.
She’s Nancy
Campbell (Helen
Hunt), an Ameri-
can radio re-
porter operating
in Berlin and
elsewhere in oc-
cupied Europe.
In the series,
she plays the
role of a narra-
tor of sorts, de-
livering the lat-
est war bulletins
—all monitored
by a Nazi news
editor—from
scripts in which
she’s allowed,
improbably, to
include grim
conjectures on
the aims of Nazism.
There are parts of “World on
Fire,” a 2019 work written for the
80th anniversary of the start of
World War II, that aren’t equal to
the whole, and some characters that
don’t ring true, but their number is
negligible. As is their impact on this
extraordinarily affecting series, so
clearly powered by its passion for
the history it represents, and by a
remarkable cast.World on Fire
Begins Sunday, 9 p.m., PBSVERY EARLY in “World on Fire”
(begins Sunday, 9 p.m., PBS), a
seven-part series set at the begin-
ning of World War II, there’s a
cheery dinner scene in the home
of a Warsaw family. Also notice-
able, amid all the merriment, is a
distinct atmosphere of menace.
Hitler’s troops will soon be there;
the men in the family of fighting
age will serve in the resistance.
Not long after that convivial eve-
ning come the bombardment of
the city and the brutality of the in-
vaders. Instances of the latter
shown in the film speak for its ex-
ceptional grasp of the history of
this moment. It’s hard to recall
any dramatic work that captured
the terror of this invasion with
such immediacy: not the only indi-
cator of the aspirations that re-
sulted in this smashing series, cre-
ated and written by Peter Bowker.
True, its opening episode stag-
gers under the weight of introduc-
tions to the central characters.
They’re in Britain, Germany,
France and Poland, living out the
war years 1939 and 1940, and their
complicated lives. Of these, no life
would seem more complex than
that of Harry Chase (a jewel of a
performance by Jonah Hauer-
King), product of an upper-class
background. Which hasn’t pre-
vented him from
falling in love with
two women of dis-
tinctly unaristocratic
families and marry-
ing one of them.
And, along the way,
impregnating the
other.
All of which is ap-
palling to Harry’s
distant mother, Ro-
bina (Lesley Man-
ville), who can’t
imagine why her
highly educated son,
fluent in languages
and employed as a
government transla-
tor, would want to
marry a Polish wait-
ress.Orwhy,justbe-
fore that, he’d be in-
volved in a serious
romance with a cab-
aret singer—daugh-
ter of a bus driver.
Or, for that matter,
why she found her
son beaten bloody, and in the com-
pany of that bus driver’s daughter,
after the two had taken part in a
protest that ended in a battle with
British Union of Fascists thugs.
Ms. Manville turns the cliché-
drenched role of a class-obsessed
British mother into a sublime cre-
ation—a woman of sparkling wit
whose eyes and facial expressions
hint, ever so subtly, that she may
not be, entirely, the wretched let’s-
get-along-with-the-Nazis blueblood
she seems to be.
She’s proudly at peace with her
often-proclaimed view that she
Zofia Wichlaz as Kasia Tomaszeski and Jonah Hauer-King as Harry Chase, above; Sean Bean as Douglas Bennett, below
left; and Ms. Wichlacz and Eryk Biedunkiewicz as Jan Tomaszeski, below right