Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This observation on oblivion was prompted by something as mundane as a pair of gloves, which had been proffered tentatively by a short man wearing a cap and an aging leather jacket, with a faded green cotton bag slung over his shoulder like an Irish peddler. For the past 24 years, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Michael Greenberg, 60, has been taking his bag of gloves to Manhattan's Bowery, long the haunt of the down-and-outs and the lost- weekenders, and wandering the gritty neighborhood looking for "the old, the reticent and the shy." When he finds one, like...
...charity of his father, Pinchus Joseph, who owned a Brooklyn bakery. "My father would often include a coffee cake or a sandwich in the bag without his customer's knowing," he says. "He would always tell us, 'Don't deprive yourself of the joy of giving.' " Money was short, and Michael has a searing recollection of losing a glove while helping bring supplies into the store on a bitterly cold morning. "I was never able to find it, and for years I went around without gloves. I never asked my father to replace them because I felt so guilty...
...cinema. The boy's chief tormentor is a trainee manager, an arrogant ninny. The figure Pelle most admires, because his courage contrasts so vividly with Lasse's discouragement, is the farm's resident revolutionist, risking all, losing all (in the film's most shattering passage), by boldly leading a short-lived revolt...
These little lives, spun out in a time and place far distant from us, would be easy to ignore. But they are all vividly played, and Bille August's gifts for austere, striking imagery and for the short, perfectly shaped scene impart to this film an epic richness, range and energy...
...farewell, Aston Martin. In the lucrative world of product placement, show business and big business are seeing eye to eye about getting brand names into the movies. Says director John Badham, who incorporated Alaska Airlines, Apple computers, Bounty paper towels and Ore-Ida frozen french fries into his film Short Circuit: "If we can help each other, and it doesn't intrude on the movie, it's fine...