Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cold Storage, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Ribman's Talmudic scholar is an old, self-educated Armenian greengrocer, Joseph Parmigian (Martin Balsam). He is dying of cancer in a New York hospital yet he has the juices of a Middle East Falstaff flowing in him, and he knows that none die with honor except those who laugh at fate...
...perfectionist director was equally demanding. Says Giannini: "We must have embraced each other 600 times." · Most dancers do their plies at the bar, but one of the New York City Ballet's principal dancers also practices hers in the pool. In the Water Beauty Book (St. Martin's Press; $10), Allegro Kent, 39, demonstrates how she keeps in shape with aquatic acrobatics, using plastic water wings. "I try to undulate like a sea anemone with them," she says. "When I wear them, I feel that I'm in a different world. It's kind...
...deployment of men and matériel, all hardware and hard knocks, with nary a thought for such behavioral patterns as the film's earlier sequences may have established for the participants. Not so in Man on the Roof, the Swedish-made policier based on one of the Martin Beck novels by Mãj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. One by one, the technological hopes for victory over the crazed killer are thwarted by his cunning and his quick reflexes. Even the usually infallible Beck is almost killed trying his hand against the killer...
Patient Cop. One likes the movie for refusing to be yet another example of the paranoia and the senselessness of the times in which we live. It is as patient as Martin Beck (well played by Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) in linking the final mass violence to the brutal, suspensefully executed murder with which the film begins. It is full of lightly sketched details that give Beck, his team of detectives, the whole cop milieu weight and depth almost subliminally, in the manner of a good novel. More than that the picture is familiar and knowing about its setting, Stockholm. Finally...
Junior attackman Steve Martin fired in a hat trick and added seven assists Saturday to lead the stickmen to their first victory over Brown in more than a decade, 18-11. Martin's ten points fell one short of the Harvard single-game record. It was the second time this Spring that a Harvard player had made a run at the Crimson standard: freshman Pete Predun collected five and five in his debut against Mass Maritime in March...