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...PAWNBROKER. Recalling the terrors of Nazi death camps amid the squalor of Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger, in the title role, gives one of the year's grimmest movies the extra impact of a powerful performance...
...PAWNBROKER. Recalling the terrors of the Nazi death camps amid the squalor of Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger, in the title role, makes one of the year's grimmest movies something...
This doggedly purposeful drama qualifies handily as the grimmest movie of the year; yet the best of it burns into the mind. As the pawnbroker, Rod Steiger performs with tightly measured virtuosity. He is colorless, an inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes...
...foreign policy favors Soviet-style peaceful coexistence, but Dej himself was as much a Stalinist as Mao. A onetime shoemaker's apprentice, he used Stalin's backing to oust Ana Pauker, the Communist Amazon, in 1952. His regime, despite some slight thawing, maintains just about the greyest, grimmest police state in Europe. Not until last year were 10,000 of his 12,000 political prisoners released...
...crux of the matter is Viet Nam, and U.S. policymakers see precious few glimmers of hope that the situation there will improve. Perhaps the grimmest fact, from the U.S. point of view, is this: Whatever the shortcomings of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, his ouster and murder have not accomplished the reforms they were supposed to. South Viet Nam's present leader, General Khanh, is trying hard enough to take hold, and in fact, Washington fears that if he were eliminated by a coup or a killer, there would be nobody left to maintain even the semblance...