Word: parmigian
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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...
...joined by a prissy, middle-aged art connoisseur and dealer, Richard Landau (Michael Lipton), who has come in for an "exploratory." This is about as comforting to Landau as seeing Charon beckon for the ferry ride across the Styx. What Parmigian tries to do is to summon up in him the image of man's courage in extremity. This image is buried in Landau's boyhood memories when he saw an old Jew (Paul Sparer) rounded up by the Nazis...
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