Word: grandpapa
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...last week, it is the certainty that Len could not have extracted any more fun from his life. As we drove up to the Hunter last Thursday, my daughters in the back seat heard a brief tribute on the radio. Nine-year-old Emily asked, "Do you think Grandpapa had done everything he wanted to?" "He never got to Barcelona," I said-the beleaguered heart had several times frustrated his desire to see Gaud?'s architecture- "but I can't think of anything else...
...Italian kitsch, with marble busts of pizza chefs. Gangleader Don Ianmarie (Andrew Gardner '89) attempts to allay his Italian mama's concerns with some of the evening's best lines, "Mama mia, calzone, Lamborgini, genitalia, guapo..." He explains that her lust for fine cuisine was handed down from "Grandpapa Domino" and "Great Aunt Regina...
...though he frequently confounded the country with his prominence on the international stage-mediating distant disputes, pleading the cause of the Third World, supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization although he is of Jewish extraction-and his penchant for lecturing Austrians in his gravel voice like an irascible Opa, or grandpapa...
...rest of the cast is uneven. John Cazale does well as a funereally unctuous Goebbels, while Jaime Sanchez simply rants as Goring. The most dis concerting performance is that of Sully Boyar, who plays Hindenburg as a gemütlicher grandpapa with a Jewish inflection. The ultimate failure rests with Pacino, who leaves a final impression of Hitler as a poor immigrant boy who made it very very...
Bachelor Broadmoore looks like a daguerreotype of Great-Grandpapa. Sporting a straw boater, spats, walking stick, wire-rimmed pince-nez, and suits copied from turn-of-the-century magazine illustrations, he uses a Gladstonian vocabulary, reserving for his strongest expletives such terms as "Oh perdition!" and "Balderdash!" He spurns television, the telephone, central heating, refrigeration, indoor plumbing and all literature published hi the past 60 years. Thoroughly true to his lifestyle, he supports himself by repairing player pianos, Victrolas, nickelodeons, and other fin de siecle artifacts, drawing customers from all over the state...