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...Herman is a tiny but otherwise normally formed man who makes his living imitating an icky-sweet, or perhaps brain-damaged, prepubescent boy. The act consists mainly of mincing, prancing and an inane giggle, so that sometimes it seems he is a little mixed up and may be doing a bad female impersonation. His Big Adventure (directed by Tim Burton) consists of trying to recover his stolen bicycle. His big mystery lies in his strange appeal for adolescents. Is he yet another vehicle through which they can sentimentalize their childhoods? Is he just the latest grotesque...
...community-center programs initiated by Sisters Mary Paul and Geraldine, and we were delighted to see your story about them. While readers will find your coverage interesting and enlightening, we believe the piece does not begin to suggest the depth, intensity and total commitment of the sisters. Nettie and Herman Frank La Mesa, Calif...
...chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous: the Herman Miller company has sold nearly 2 million Ergons and, in less than two years, some 350,000 Equas...
...bears biblical and literary echoes of wanderers, seekers?perfect for the producer for whom the whole world was his back lot. Being on a first-name basis with theatrical royalty, he insisted on the same informality from others. Introduced to a stranger, he would quote the first line of Herman Melville's Moby Dick and say, "Call me Ismail...
...wife's surname Raigosa when he married), he grew up watching his father beat his mother and then took his own anger onto the streets, getting into fights. He was kicked out of one school, dropped out of another, and probably would never have graduated if not for Herman Katz, a teacher at Roosevelt High, who plucked him from a remedial English class and propelled him on to graduate from UCLA. "It didn't take a genius to figure out there was a lot going on in that head of his. He stood out," says Katz...