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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Under Nazi rule in Czechoslovakia, a Chaplinesque carpenter (Josef Kroner) endures a Kafkaesque nightmare when his friendship with a harmless old button seller (Ida Kaminska) is tested by an order for the deportation of Jews...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Under Nazi rule in Czechoslovakia, a Chaplinesque carpenter (Josef Kroner) endures a Kafkaesque nightmare when his friendship with a harmless old button seller (Ida Kamińska) is tested by an order for the deportation of Jews...
Somebody pressed the "up" button, but the elevator (ah, symbolism) headed down-straight from the lobby of Long Island's Garden City Hotel into the basement, where it landed with a distinct thump. Said Nelson Rockefeller: "Well, we can't go down any farther. We're at the bottom." Said Happy: "Oh well, then I won't worry about it." After five interminable minutes, the doors opened and Nelson, Happy and eight other passengers climbed out. "Hey," gawked a workman, "it's the Governor." "Hey, Governor!" shouted another, holding out a house phone, "say hello...
...cattle prod in his hand and a "Never" button on his shirt, Sheriff Jim Clark twinged the nation's conscience during last year's Selma march. As much as anyone, he personified the Southern inequity that provoked the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was, therefore, altogether fitting that Big Jim should be the loser in the first case brought under that...
...plot concerns a poor Czechoslovakian farmer named Tono Britko who becomes the "Arvan manager" of a button shop owned by Mrs. Lautmann, an aging Jewess. The other Jews in the village pay Britko to protect the old woman until deportation orders bring an end to the arrangement. Britko must then decide whether he will hide Mrs. Lautmann from the Nazis or protect himself by sending her away...