Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stern is about being Jewish in a lawn-proud suburb of midcentury, middle-class America. But Stern is no sociological novel. Blurring fact and fantasy, it is funny and sad at the same time in the tradition of the Jewish schlemiel story and the Charlie Chaplin movie...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. On his 40th birthday Woody has misgivings about the value of his life and viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home. The author uses this technique-characterization by telling reference--to the point of inanity...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. Whether or not Weiner intended some symbolic use for that name, he has drawn a wooden and immobile character. Woody's personality seems to be a function of his political beliefs: active member of SANE, NAACP-good guy. But later, no time for SANE, fires a Negro employee...
...sniffles are frequently punctuated with snickers, and now and then with a button-popping belly laugh. Gleason has a gift of mimicry that verges on genius, and there are moments in this movie when the thin man struggling to get out of the fat man seems to be Charlie Chaplin...
...home country it has become almost a religion. "Philosophically," says Brazilian Jazzman Ronaldo Boscoli, "bossa nova is a frame of mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while...