Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lord of this glass-and-concrete palace is a Jewish real estate mogul named Arthur Goldman (Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter...
...Goldman really Jewish? Convinced that Goldman is actually Adolf Dorff, a former SS colonel expressly charged with the extermination of Jews, three armed Israeli agents abduct him for trial. The court scene that dominates Act II is a desultory affair. It would be a sleepy bore except for Pleasence's arrogant depiction of Dorff. At one point, he rises in his glass booth to deliver a kind of prose love poem to his Führer. The speech rises toward erotic ecstasy so that the climaxing "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" is an orgasm of fanaticism. It terrifyingly...
...would have trouble buying or selling at fair prices. Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal, he said, would convert the Big Board into a mere "quotation bureau with limited activity." The reason is that many large firms, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., of which Levy is a senior partner, would be likely to quit the exchange altogether...
...CONTEMPORARY THEATER, Seattle, presents The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Peter Shaffer's spectacle about Pizarro, June 19-July 6, and James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, a fantasy about the domestic life of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, July...
Most important, once Charles broke the barrier between gospel and blues, the way was open for a whole cluster of ingredients to converge around an R & B core and form the potent, musical mix now known as soul?among them, in Critic Albert Goldman's words, "a racial ragbag of Delta blues, hillbilly strumming, gutbucket jazz, boogie-woogie piano, pop lyricism and storefront shouting...