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...exactly the kind of hardy celebration that Judah Maccabee had in mind...
Chanukah may seem at first to be a relatively innocuous celebration of a miracle. When Judah Maccabee rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem all those years ago, he only had enough oil to light the eternal light (which is supposed to be lit at all times) for one night. Instead, the oil miraculously lasted for eight nights until they could find some more...
...Assistant Professor of Pathology Donald Ingber and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology M. Judah Folkman, the theoretical part of the research resolves a longstanding clinical question in the study of tumors: rather than being "born" with the capacity to cripple their host, bodily tumors acquire that ability sometime in the early stage of their development...
...crimes and misdemeanors Allen records in this film go not merely unpunished; they are generously rewarded. Upstairs, on the melodramatic story line, a hypocritical Judah gets away with murder, arranging for the assassination of his mistress (Anjelica Huston), who threatens to make their affair -- and his equally shabby financial affairs -- public, thereby destroying his family, wealth and reputation...
This is the funny stuff? Yes, because Allen puts a deliberately farcical spin on Cliff's frenzies. It is good showmanship, a way of relieving the itchy ironies of Judah's discomfiting story. It also rings with irony. If neither Judah's guilty musings on his own crimes -- and he does exhibit a strong desire to be caught and punished -- nor decent Cliff's frantic quest for some kind of fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade...