Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST CHAPTER. Quietly narrated by Theodore Bikel, this collection of rare film clips avoids the chamber-of-horrors approach in recalling the almost unbearably poignant history of Poland's Jews...
...LAST CHAPTER. Quietly narrated by Theodore Bikel, this collection of rare film clips avoids the chamber-of-horrors approach in recalling the almost unbearably poignant history of Poland's Jews...
...Sunday Morning) quells resistance by assigning the mad-capital antics to two gifted young British actors, David Warner (London's hottest new Hamlet) and Vanessa Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael). Playing their first important film roles, both manage to make a pair of tricky characters seem hilarious and poignant...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This poignant Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil but non-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a Chaplinesque little nobody (Josef Króner) who, because he is an Aryan, is put in charge of the business, and the fate, of a shiningly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kami...
Lavish praise from teachers and considerable coolness among administrators is the fate of New York Teacher Bel Kaufman's amusing, poignant and pointed first novel, Up the Down Staircase, which dramatizes the first-year frustrations of a metropolitan high school teacher. Easily the most popular novel about U.S. public schools in history, the book has just passed a full year on the bestseller lists, sold 350,000 copies in hard cover and 1,500,000 in its first month in paperback. Warner Bros, has paid $400,000 for film rights and is now trying to pick an actress...