Word: nebbishness
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...pieces, Thurber was a master of turning a homely personal detail--his troubles with his housekeepers, say, or the night his bed collapsed--into an affecting, hilarious story. Thurber's character Walter Mitty, reduced to a life of fantasy in an otherwise banal existence, remains the quintessential twentieth-century nebbish...
Play it Again Sam [Harvard Square]: There are two distinct periods in Woody Allen's career. In the first, the bright red period, his vision was of the nebbish as a nebbish. In the second, the mauve and chartreuse period, it was the nebbish as an artist. Play it Again Sam is probably his best effort of the bright red period. In this latter day Casablanca scenario, Allen is a movie-going Prufrock who longs to be Bogie. Diane Keaton plays her patented delectable goof role, and cuts an unlikely Ingrid Bergman figure. You must love a movie with lines...