Word: herman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Herman Broder (Ron Silver), the passive hedonist in director Paul Mazursky's $ film of Enemies, a Love Story, is sure. There must have been a Holocaust, or Herman would not have hidden from it for most of the war. Now it is 1949, and he lives in New York with, eventually, three loving women: his Polish Gentile wife Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whom he married out of gratitude for protecting him in the old country; his passionate mistress Masha (Lena Olin), whom the Holocaust has driven to a volcanic indecision between childbearing and suicide; and his long-lost first wife...
...Herman's story could be played as brisk black comedy, an "I Led Three Wives" with memories of death ever kibitzing in his restless sleep. But Mazursky is scrupulously fair to the characters -- so fair that Enemies lacks his films' customary oomph. When it is not vitalized by the beautiful performances of Olin and Huston, the picture takes on Herman's dithering lassitude. And yet there is a method to this meandering. Novelist and director both know a man is more than the sum of the calamities that have befallen him. Herman is a victim, not just of the Nazis...
Equa Chair. This handsome office chair, created by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick for the manufacturer Herman Miller, comprises two structural innovations: the backbone is an ingeniously cut single piece of springy glass- reinforced polyester resin, and a special knee-tilt mechanism lets the sitter lean back without whipping his feet off the floor...