Word: kravitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unable to mount any greater threat in the doubles, as the Crimson teams of Ingard-Hyde, Waldman-Reiner, and Sandy Wilson-Karl Kravitz all cruised to victory to round out the scoring...
...profound as a movie of the Marx Brothers let loose in a beauty parlor. We encounter characters as self-centered as the businessman in Paper Tiger, who sets his clothing warehouse on fire to receive insurance benefits, characters as scheming as the young entrepreneur in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, who ignores the human suffering produced by his financial dealing. But whereas in those portrayals the characters become aware of the consequences of their actions, in Shampoo we encounter people like Lenny, who is concerned only with giving Jackie enough presents to guarantee her love, or Felicia, who drags George...
These positions are by no means permanent, as any one of a number of players currently listed on the J.V. squad, including Dan Waldman, Cliff Adler, Karl Kravitz and Sandy Wilson, may move up to the varsity before the season is over...
...least, lived like old-fashioned Italian dons--eating good food, living in fine old houses, aspiring to a taste for literature and history. The younger generation is caught halfway between Scarsdale and Umberto's Clam House. Surprisingly, the movie Godfather II is closest to is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: two hard young men, both ethnic outsiders, lose their humanity in the struggle to gain and hold on to a dream of power, wealth and respectability, all against a background of the same two Americas--urban slums and the "open" land of resorts like Lake Tahoe...
...title The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is an apt one but at the same time it leads us to expect more from the movie than it gives us. "Apprenticeship" implies a period of development, a time during which a young person grows out of his childish impulses and selfish desires. But young Kravitz shows little sign of any development at all, and we are left to guess whether or not he will serve out his apprenticeship and become a master or as Cohen would call it, a mensch...