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...Proust of The Bronx. He remembers everything-even sometimes how things really are in working-class life in the big city. He remembers concretely, with photographic eye and phonographic ear. Yet his memories seem to move him -and his audiences-in inverse proportion to their importance. He is a minusculist, with a passion for the little ideas and the Little People-apparently not so much because they are people as because they are little. But for all that, Author Chayefsky has a metropolitan instinct as keen as a pigeon's, and an old cab driver's mystical sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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