Word: pawnshop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawn in a bleak outpost of suburbia where he lives with relatives, Nazerman's mind melts back to an idyllic day in the old country with his wife and children. In a teeming subway, he suddenly sees the boxcar-prison where his son was trampled underfoot. In the pawnshop, when a Negro harlot strips to the waist, enticing him to pay double for a gold locket, the old man recalls how he was forced to watch his naked wife submitting to a Nazi...
...style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...roamed art museums by day ("I feel a rapport with Jackson Pollock," he says). Last year he got by on $500. Living in one room cluttered with stacks of tape and three tape recorders, he worked on a book explaining his music and practiced on the violin-a $15 pawnshop bargain -"until somebody started knocking on the walls...
...important debut in Carnegie Hall went unnoticed because it occurred during the 1962-63 newspaper strike. Then last April he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition, but in all the excitement the $15,000 Guarnerius violin he had borrowed from Juilliard was stolen. The instrument was recovered later in a pawnshop, but news of the event completely overshadowed his stunning victory. Barring other such misfortunes, the U.S. and the world will be hearing a lot more about Itzhak Perlman in the very near future...
...Corporate Ascetic. Despite its prosperity, B.H.P. has chosen for itself the role of corporate ascetic. Says one former executive, ruefully recalling his $18-a-week expense allowance: "The place is run like a pawnshop." The sprawling B.H.P. shop is presently managed by a triumvirate that prefers fishing to nightclubbing and warily shies away from public notice. The ruling trio: courtly Chairman Colin Y. Syme, 59. a Melbourne lawyer; Managing Director Norman E. Jones, 58, a quiet chemist and metallurgist; and impatient Ian M. McLennan, 52, chief general manager, who joined B.H.P. in 1933 in a cadet engineer's "pick...