Word: bergmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competitor, Mel Brooks, Allen aims his custard pies up, not down. If his humor is merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to Fiddler on the Roof than to comic on the make. The same affection courses through his parodies of Fellini and Bergman and of Pierre at Borodino. In mocking classics, in touching on the topics of religion and mortality, Allen has drawn laughter where there was silence and mustaches where there were faces...
...Gordon Bergman...
What results is a portrait of a man and woman that is Bergman-like in its intense depiction of two beings who reach out to one another in an attempt to escape the prisons of their lonely souls. The Middle of the World inevitably raises comparisons with Scenes from a Marriage. But to group the two together, as some critics have done, is like terming Mrs. Dalloway and Pride and Prejudice similar works because each portrays a female as she relates to the people around her. Just as the stylistic innovations of Virginia Woolf's study make it part...
...Gerald Bergman, president of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Commission, told the council that "if one person in the city is surviving and doing well, it is Harvard...
...They should have to pay all they're on a level with the poorest individual in town," Bergman said. "Till we have equality we don't have justice...