Word: holocaustal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mood, Laszlo sounds like a Nazi: "A healthy body makes a healthy spirit," he huffs as he completes a maniacal regimen of push-ups. Ann's father-in-law (Donald Moffat), who helped relocate Nazis as a CIA agent after the war, is no more enlightened. He derides the Holocaust as "the world's sacred cow." He's not even sure it happened...
Herman Broder (Ron Silver), the passive hedonist in director Paul Mazursky's $ film of Enemies, a Love Story, is sure. There must have been a Holocaust, or Herman would not have hidden from it for most of the war. Now it is 1949, and he lives in New York with, eventually, three loving women: his Polish Gentile wife Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whom he married out of gratitude for protecting him in the old country; his passionate mistress Masha (Lena Olin), whom the Holocaust has driven to a volcanic indecision between childbearing and suicide; and his long-lost first wife...
...putting together a collection of essays, Bettelheim, 86, has created a kind of crypto-autobiography, because he keeps reverting to the elements that have established patterns in his life: psychoanalysis, art, children (he has specialized in treating autistic children at the University of Chicago) and the Holocaust. Several of those patterns combine in his moving account of Janusz Korczak, who headed the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, where a children's court enforced the children's rules. Despite friends' efforts to rescue him, Korczak insisted on staying with his children even as he walked hand in hand with them onto...
CINEMA: A holiday Holocaust from Hollywood...
...struggle of the Palestinians to have a Palestinian state," implicitly backing the two-year-old intifadeh. He spoke of "worrisome parallels" between conditions in the Israeli-occupied territories and South Africa's black townships. And he outraged Jewish sensibilities by urging Israelis to forgive those responsible for the Holocaust. Most Israeli officials declined to meet with Tutu, accusing him of harboring anti-Jewish prejudices. Protestors scrawled "black Nazi pig" on the wall of the church where Tutu was staying. Said the Archbishop: "If I am accused of being antiSemitic, tough luck...