Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slips into self-conscious mannerisms, he makes his character, a mess sergeant from Arizona, an appealing innocent abroad. Devane is a charming commanding officer, despite his disconcerting tendency to sound like Jack Nicholson. Both Eichhorn (a gifted screen newcomer) and Redgrave show enough backbone to prevent their roles, a shopgirl and an aristocrat, from softening into hopeless cliches...
...himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this case a shopgirl and her electronics technician fianc...
Here are two of the best film actors in the world, looking miserable and fighting hard as they try to scrounge a scrap of grace and dignity from the shambles of this shopgirl's religious romance. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch first met on screen in Lost Horizon, an unnatural disaster of a movie which required them to bill and coo at each other while chorus boys in loincloths leapt all about them. In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor...
Brandt himself earned a reputation as a "good German." The illegitimate son of a Lübeck shopgirl, he joined the Socialist youth organization in 1931, and was forced to leave Germany after Hitler came to power. He first came to world attention as mayor of West Berlin between 1957 and 1966. During the recurring Berlin crises, including East Germany's erection of the Wall in 1961, Brandt was the symbol of his city's determination to remain free...
Fogel, the son of an immigrant sign painter and a halfwit shopgirl, is born in London and drifts through childhood and adolescence preoccupied with his special powers. He believes he can become what he observes-objects made of stone, iron, wood, glass. "The god he wanted to reach wasn't interested in words. Only in achieved states. Palpable transformations. He would be known only by those who had gone through them." Fogel's crowning obsession is the diamond. Acquiring some through a friendly burglar, he becomes a fanatical student of facets and crystallography, of refraction angles and cleavage...