The ambilevous (the opposite of ambidextrous) child is unable to use either hand more skillfully than the other, but is equally awkward in the use of each.

The monster in this case is a reptilian, vomit- and blood-spewing thing in a glass tank that’s more reminiscent of “Alien” than of the dime-store concoctions on “Doctor Who,” the show from which “Torchwood” was anagrammatically spun off.

Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.

He was too stoned to know which end was up.