Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lull of gems. For those who need definitions of Yiddishisms that have crept into everyday use, Rosten provides examples, many with a fond patina of age: chutzpa is a case of "a man who, having killed his mother and father, asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan, poor schlemiel is a man who "falls on his back and breaks his nose." Some lines are cosmic as well as comic: "The rich have heirs, not children." "Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help...
...been easy for him. You see, Charles, Winton has always been a 'despairer.' Orphan, who painted him after the Durdanelles, used to speak of the misery in his face. He was quite certain that he would never get into office, for everyone seemed to regard him as a wild man. Winston has always been wretched unless he was occupied. Why, he told me that he prays every day for death...
Culpepper may mean to be about Texas, but it's really California history. An orphan leaves a mother who then must make her living by laundry, a disproportionate number of Mexicans drive cattle, and the pilgrims come out of nowhere--and no religion as we know it. Richards attempts to give his film some resonance by using great bit players like Royal Dano and Bo Hopkins, but even these worthies' roles are inflated beyond their acting potential. Both before and behind the camera, everyone's just on some bad kind of trip...
Europeans are understandably impatient for the U.S. to buy back its own currency somehow, if necessary by selling U.S. Government bonds abroad. For its part, the Nixon Administration is convinced that the U.S. is capable of running a healthy payments surplus -and thus of repatriating orphan dollars in the course of normal commerce -if only foreign nations would strip down some of their trade barriers against U.S. products. U.S. officials have thus sought to tie trade discussions to any negotiations on long-term monetary reform...
...supported by Eugene Roche's Derby, a solid man who's based his life on Christian principle (though not aware of its shaky national foundation), moving with that authority even when threatened; and Ron Liebman as Lazarro, speaking with guttural snorts that carry with him all that his unforgiving orphan's nature ever suffered...