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...Charles Herman was a Harvard-educated journalist, writing for The Nation and public TV. In 1972 he and his wife arrived in Chile, and, 15 months later, during the bloody coup that deposed Salvador Allende, he disappeared. In outline, Charles looks like a modern, minor John Reed. But Missing is not his story. Instead, it tracks the attempts of Charles' wife (Sissy Spacek) and father (Jack Lemmon) to discover whether the young man is indeed missing or dead-killed by the junta for crimes unknown...
...trail leads Ed and Beth Herman-at first abrasive adversaries, then trusting amateur detectives-through the blood-streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies...
...relationship with his father as the principal formative influence upon his character, suggesting that it subliminally provided the subject matter for much of his writing. Physically imposing, with a frightening temper that he vented very discriminately on his children and the Czech employees in his fancy-goods shop. Herman Kafka terrorized young Franz with threats, public humiliation and arbitrary commandments. Kafka's earliest memory was of being whisked out of bed one night and dumped outdoors--punishment for being thirsty. Whoever said The Trial was "puzzling and abstract...
...then will appear in the arcades. Bally's development people think it is fun, but right now, no one has any idea whether it will be a lap jumper or a puddle maker. "This is the most democratic business in the world," says Mount Prospect, Ill., Arcade Owner Bill Herman. "You got a ballot box, and people vote with their quarters...
...Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling. The murder of Herman Tarnower and the trial of Jean Harris are given a shrewd, unforgiving analysis by a critic with literary and moral sensibilities...