Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters are as memorable as they are grotesque. Short, fat Ma Shemansky rules her Lower East Side tenement to cruelly that "she thinks she's just." Zelo Shemansky counters his wife's attacks by going into fits, "twitching like a toilet chain." While balancing the Shemansky powers, crippled son Barish fiendishly maximizes tension and antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich...
...story is an incredible one. Bracha, a Shemansky daughter long in the charge of a local housekeeper of nitwits, commits suicide. Yanins, who fled from Ma's begemony seven years earlier, hitchhikes from Boston with her husband and child for the funeral. Ma had telegraphed Yanins, "Come!," but, of course, had already buried Bracha. And, although everybody is gathered at Brooms Street, nobody is mourning Bracha...
Love and marriage? For five years Film Stars Romy Schneider, 25, and Alain Delon, 28, had one without the other. But last week Romy returned to their Paris apartment from Hollywood, and there, instead of Alain, was a bouquet of red roses and a note: "Ma chérie, je regrette...
...dissolves. At one point, while the heroes grapple in a foot of snow, the sound track plays ethnic music from equatorial Africa. And all through the film, the cinemate moviegoer will be able to detect sly little mementos of D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni-and Ma and Pa Kettle...
Married. Prince Mohammed 24 younger brother of Jordan's King Hussein; and Ferial Farid Irshed, 19, daughter of a wealthy Jordanian landowner ma Moslem ceremony at Amman's Zahran Palace, in celebration of which Hussein ordered the release of 40 political prisoners...