Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Halder, in a smart performance by Arciniegas, a member of the theater department at Wellesley College, is a frustrated soul. His way of coping with stress is to hear imaginary band music, from cabaret numbers to classical symphonic excerpts. And he has much to be stressed about. His wife Helen (Joy Brooke Fairfield '03) confines herself to the home in neurotic fear. His mother (Cheryl Chan '03) is blind and suffers from an annoying senile dementia that drives Halder to publish his pro-euthanasia book during one of his depressed bouts. His best friend is a Jewish psychiatrist named Maurice...
...Halder's mind, Hitler (Brendon DeMay) is a babbling idiot, who in some of the evening's most amusing moments, sings a Jewish wedding song and proclaims at an imaginary rally, "I don't know where I am. I don't know what I'm doing." Halder's wife urges him to join the party for the practical purpose of obtaining a more prestigious university position. He does not have to embrace their ideas, after all, but simply wear their uniform. He rationalizes his decision to join with the nave illusion that he can push the Nazis up "to humanity...
...addition to his two children, Kozol is survived by his wife, Pauline, a brother, Harry L. Kozol of Weston, and two grandchildren...
...life is threatened, his ex-employers hire thugs to stalk and scare him, and his wife leaves with their two daughters; he loses everything for a chance to set the record straight and doubts whether the price was worth it. Meanwhile, Bergman can't get Wigand's interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first...
...little old, but he can still charm the bloomers off The Wife of Bath...