Word: armine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thinking is small inscope. On a typical day last month, this newspaperhad front page stories about the Class Dayspeaker, a protest by one of Harvard's unions, thenaming of the undergraduates speakers atCommencement, a report on the University'scomputer network and a professor breaking his armin the stacks of Pusey Library. Stories about newresearch, academic debates or speeches by leadingthinkers were material for the inside pages, ifthey appeared...
...psychic powers. She moves objects around the room with her eyes, producing only a slight reprimand from her mother (Vanessa Redgrave), who is apparently accustomed to her daughter's unusual gifts. Later, While telling fortunes to guests at a party in honor of the election of her father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) to the senate. Clara suddenly foresees her sister Rosa's untimely death. She screams at the shock of her premonition, which proves to be true (as are all of Clara's predictions). Hours later, Rosa dies from a poisoned bottle of wine intended for her father...
...problem here is that the stories, characters and acting rarely justify even feuilleton treatment. The Hollywood agent (Gena Rowlands) who thinks her driver (Winona Ryder) could be a star; the Brooklyn bro (Giancarlo Esposito) who bonds with his German-born cabbie (Armin Mueller-Stahl); the blind Parisian (Beatrice Dalle) who, sigh, sees life more clearly than the African (Isaach De Bankole) in the front seat; the Finnish depressive (Matti Pellonpaa) who relates a you-think-you-got-troubles saga -- these are shaggy- dog stories without a tail. Or, really, a tale...
Nothing wrong with that story or with a solid cast (headed by Armin Mueller- Stahl and Aidan Quinn). Why, then, does this movie set one's molars to grinding? Partly because it is impossible to imagine a Jewish family passing a half-century in America without encountering -- and railing against -- prejudice. Partly because the law of averages suggests that in a group this numerous there ought to be at least one mean, crazy, totally unassimilable figure. Somebody, in other words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert...
...very demanding process in a couple ofstages," said Armin Schmiedeberg, a graduate ofthe program. "You have to have a finished Germandegree to apply and this has to be an honorsdegree...