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Among the most important distortions she exposes are: an invented psychology degree from the University of Vienna; pretended acquaintance with Freud; guardianship of an autistic child whom his first wife in fact tended; unreliable accounts of his ordeals in Dachau and Buchenwald; and exaggerated claims of success as a benevolent savior of emotionally disturbed children at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago.
In the great tradition of political and cultural journalism, the editors will spend the week lying on the beach, perhaps reading the odd scrap of old-fashioned print-on-paper, and resting up for the election campaign and other ordeals ahead.
Reviews dwell on the directors' effective hand-held camera and their subtle depiction of the ordeals of immigrant life.