Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lumet's parallel between Harlem and the concentration camp creates the impact of the film. Nazemann is constantly seen behind the pawnbroker's cage dealing with his customers as through the prison fence. The cage also symbolizes his isolation, emphasized by Lumet's close-up shots of Nazemann locking himself in and out. Inside the cage he is the Nazi officer responding to human misery with utter callousness, the Jew playing persecutor. But when a destitute woman enters to sell her wedding ring, he cannot avoid his own memories, shown as flashbacks, of German soldiers tearing gold rings from...
...fact, the best of Mime I is anything but funny. Weisman's adaptation of Marceau's skit "The Cage" is a lovingly prepared allegory on the prisoner of modern society, trapped by the invisible shield of Gardol. Weisman's flappy figure strolls out in a relaxed gait and walks right into a contracting glass cage. He escapes, by breaking the wall, but ignorantly stumbles back into the trap, and to destruction...
Weisman's technique in this skit, as in all of them, is clear and careful. His hands speak in economical, controlled movements, suggesting surprise as they flatten on the cage walls and horror as they push against them. His broad mouth and wide eyes go from smile to shock with none of the obvious self-satisfaction in a welldone trick. Though some of his comic material is childish and inane, Weisman's actions provoke our willing laughter, especially when he's playing in home ground, being the snoring student in lecture or the pretentious flamenco guitarist...
During the summer, children coming to the camp will spend a half a day working an arts and crafts projects of participating in athletics. The University has allowed PBHA to use the Business School Field, Carey Cage, and some tennis courts behind the Business School...
Miss Caldiera had been in an adjoining teller cage on Tuesday when a man, keeping his right hand in his pocket, walked up to the counter and presented a robbery note. He received $1875, and then proceeded to drop $500 of it while hurrying out of the bank...