Word: apprenticeship
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...statement about as profound as a movie of the Marx Brothers let loose in a beauty parlor. We encounter characters as self-centered as the businessman in Paper Tiger, who sets his clothing warehouse on fire to receive insurance benefits, characters as scheming as the young entrepreneur in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, who ignores the human suffering produced by his financial dealing. But whereas in those portrayals the characters become aware of the consequences of their actions, in Shampoo we encounter people like Lenny, who is concerned only with giving Jackie enough presents to guarantee her love, or Felicia...
...older generation, at least, lived like old-fashioned Italian dons--eating good food, living in fine old houses, aspiring to a taste for literature and history. The younger generation is caught halfway between Scarsdale and Umberto's Clam House. Surprisingly, the movie Godfather II is closest to is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: two hard young men, both ethnic outsiders, lose their humanity in the struggle to gain and hold on to a dream of power, wealth and respectability, all against a background of the same two Americas--urban slums and the "open" land of resorts like Lake Tahoe...
Willie, who studied at Harvard, where he got an A.B. in mathematics, did more than a year's apprenticeship at the Examiner. Then, at Randolph's urging, he was soon busy installing his friends on the paper, including Bob Hayes as black minority adviser and sportswriter; Raul Ramirez, a 28-year-old Cuban journalist from the Washington Post, as an investigative reporter; and Reporter Larry Kramer, an abrasive 24-year-old Harvard M.B.A. (who in 1974 wrote his master's thesis on the Hearst Corp.), as assistant to the executive editor, to churn out ideas...
...Congressman may have arrived after a successful career elsewhere, but he must still undergo a humbling apprenticeship. Anxious to make his mark among his jostling peers, he will have ingested Sam Rayburn's advice that to get along, go along; perhaps he has also learned from John Nance Garner that "you can't know everything well. Learn one subject thoroughly." In a place where talk is cheap and oratory poor, his fellow legislators will judge him by whether he has "done his homework" well-and that phrase accurately registers the tedium involved. Going along, getting along, he becomes...
Notebook Research. DeNiro is not a Hollywood but a New York actor, a term loosely used to describe a certain style and attitude, with implications of seriousness, stage-oriented technique and lengthy, underpaid apprenticeship. DeNiro has been plugging away at his profession for 14 years, through workshop productions, off-off-Broadway, dinner theaters, touring companies and a number of unsung independent films. Friends describe DeNiro as demonic, obsessive, perfectionist. He researches a role like a counter-intelligence agent cramming for a new identity. In his tiny, crabbed script, he fills one small notebook after another with research. DeNiro says...