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...PAWNBROKER. As an anguished old Jew caught between the remembered horrors of Nazi Germany and the deadly grind of life in Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger illuminates one of the year's grimmest films with one of the year's grandest performances...
...that's the twist, and the twist is now as dead as the big apple. If it bumps and wiggles, that's the frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion and you have the monkey. Stick your thumbs in your ears and it's the mouse or the mule...
...PAWNBROKER. Rod Steiger gives a virtuoso performance as an embittered old Jew whose memories of concentration-camp horror counterpoint the bleak daily grind of his pawnshop in Spanish Harlem...
...which led her to worry about "this family called Nielsen. Everyone asks, 'What are the Nielsens watching?' They think the whole country is watching what this one family is watching. I mean, nobody ever asked me what I'm watching." But after her two-show Saturday grind, she showed up at Bergdorf's for taping at noon Sunday and, even while the grips were adjusting the lights, she started singing and just kept it up until the early morning hours. "I've switched my opinions," she announced. "It's better without an audience...
...Andes are young and violent mountains, not yet fully grown or pacified by time. Still-active volcanoes pock the spiny range running the length of western South America. Avalanches rumble down constantly from the 20,000-ft. peaks. And beneath the earth's jagged crust, fantastic forces grind and churn, producing violent earthquakes-most often in Chile. Of the thousands of big and little tremors recorded around the world each year, about 15% occur in Chile. One quake in 1906 took 3,000 lives. Another in 1939 left 30,000 dead. Five years ago, still another killed...