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...tell from here...what the inhabitants of Venus are like; they resemble the Moors of Granada; a small, black people, burned by the sun, full of wit and fire, always in love, writing verse, fond of music, arranging festivals, dances and tournaments every...
When her father dies, she dons male garb and enrolls in a yeshiva, a school for rabbinical studies. Assuming the name of Anshul, she becomes increasingly fond of her fellow student Avigdor (John V. Shea). The sundering of a marriage contract has left Avigdor desolate at the loss of a comely local girl named Hadass (Lynn Ann Leveridge). Avigdor conceives the idea that if he cannot have Hadass, Anshul shall. Anshul/Yentl goes through with the marriage, and she manages to keep it deceptively intact, though Jehovah alone knows quite...
Hall had always called himself a son of Dixie, and by 1914, sure enough, he was in New Orleans, publishing a little magazine called Rebellion. It must have been something of a fond return for him, since New Orleans was the city where Hall had settled at the turn of the century, and where he had gone through a sea change that leaves me almost completely baffled, even more than do the other bits and pieces of his life I've found...
...shot in the bank's cramped interior, the visual monotony is relieved only by occasional shots of the street and a few crosscuts to Sonny's apartment. He dwells on ethnicity as though it were the last word since Bridget and Bernie, giving us social realism with a fond look at hysterical Italians, hot-blooded Latins, and stupid, good-natured blacks. Presumably in the name of verisimilitude, he refuses to edit out repetitive or slow-moving sequences. A real drama under Lumet's direction might keep us in the theater for days...
Sipple had arrived at his pivotal destination wholly by accident. He had left his apartment some seven blocks away shortly after a 10 a.m. breakfast of cereal and coffee. Unemployed and fond of long walks on nice days, he had considered strolling to Fisherman's Wharf. Instead, he wandered toward Union Square, where he was surprised at the number of demonstrators protesting such conditions as high oil prices, poor schools and U.S. involvement in the Middle East. He asked why they were there. "What's the matter with you, stupid?" one replied. "Don't you read the papers? Ford...