Philip BerrollMiscellaneous Aaron Kass, Arkadiy Kagan, Association of Holocaust Survivors of the Former Soviet Union, Babi Yar, Bernard Metrick, Berroll, Boris Pevsner, Buchenwald Choir, East Midwood Jewish Center, Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Week, Joseph Richter, Jules Polonetsky, Kishinev, Ludmila Tkach, Lydia Vareljan, Malka Budilovsky, Manya Greenberg, Marina Buchina, Minsk ghetto, Robert Kaplan, Russian Forward, September 28 1941, Soviet Jews, Ukrainian Jews, Yevtushenko
The massacre began on September 28, 1941, and continued over the following two days. Scores of Ukrainian Jews were rounded up by Nazi storm troopers and their Ukrainian sympathizers, marched into a clearing in the middle of a wooded area, and shot, their bodies dumped into a mass grave.
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Philip BerrollMiscellaneous Atlantis space shuttle, Bella Abzug, Berroll, Board of Estimate, Bukhara, Bukharan Jews, Claire Shulman, Columbia space shuttle, David Dicasa, Ellen Shulman Baker, Giuliani budget cuts, Jewish Week, Manes, March 1986, Michael Rogovin, Queens Borough Hall, Queens Community Board 11, Queens Hospital Center, Rockaway Peninsula, Ruth Messinger, Sandy Feldman, space station Mir, Technodome, Thomas Manton, Uzbek, Uzbekistan
In the spacious conference room on the second floor of Queens Borough Hall, Claire Shulman speaks to a visiting delegation of Russian women about her job as Borough President. The women, legislative aides in the former Soviet Union, are visiting the U.S. to learn about the workings of American government and politics (“Next, we’re going to see Bella Abzug,” says their interpreter). One of the Russians asks Shulman how she deals with day-to-day problems, such as a poorly paved street.
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Philip BerrollMiscellaneous Berroll, Carr's, Gallo, jug wine, Kamikaze, mini-sandwiches, New York Values, nosh and slosh, off-off-off-Broadway, Passaic County, political receptions, professional association, reception crashers, Ritz, Sen. D'Amato, Sex on the Beach, Swiss cubes
My friend C., a fellow journalist, is emphatic about what he considers a true joy of our profession. Is it a prominent byline, an exclusive story, an expose of wrongdoing? Guess again. “What I really like,” he says, “is all the chances you get to eat and drink for free.”
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Philip BerrollMiscellaneous Bay Terrace, Bayside Queens, Berroll, December dilemma, Egon Mayer, Gabrielle Glaser, interfaith couples, Interfaith Network, Interfaith Week, intermarriage, Jewish Outreach Institute, Jewish Week, JOY, Lynn Levy, Lynne Wolfe, Madeline Albright, Mazer Foundation, MetroWest, Samuel Field Y, Samuel Field YMHA, Steven Engelberg, Strangers to the Tribe
Gabrielle Glaser can identify with Madeline Albright. Like the Secretary of State, Glaser, a freelance journalist, grew up believing that she was a Christian – in her case, a German Lutheran, like most of her neighbors in rural Oregon – before learning otherwise. While visiting Poland in 1984, Glaser found out that she was actually descended from Jews who had emigrated from that country a century earlier.
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Philip BerrollMiscellaneous 1996 bus bombing, Alisa Flatow, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Berroll, Clinton Administration, David Bosco, Foreign Affairs, Forward, Frank Lautenberg, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, Matthew Eisenfeld, Plaintiff's Diplomacy, rogue nations, Sarah Duker, Sen. Connie Mack, states of concern, Steven Perlis
The relatives of several American victims of terrorism have tried to achieve some degree of closure by suing foreign governments, such as Iran, which sponsor terrorist groups. A number of plaintiffs have been successful, winning large court judgments.
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Philip BerrollMiscellaneous anorexia, Berroll, bulimia, bulimics, diet pills, eating disorders, Eating Disorders Center, Flora Bienstock, hypoglycemia, Ilene Fishman, Japanese diet, Jewish Week, Long Island University, Maimonides, mind-body connection, Montclair, obesity, Rambam, Rick Shields, Weight Watchers, Wysoker, Yeshiva Flatbush
For most of her life, Susan B., now 51, has struggled with eating disorders of one kind or another. As a child, she was a compulsive overeater; as a “size 16” teenager, she was taken by her mother to a doctor who prescribed diet pills. She spent most of the next decade on a dietary roller coaster – “I’d go up and down 20 to 25 pounds,” she says – but didn’t think she was abnormal until, at 28, she was diagnosed with hypoglycemia and told to cut sugar out of her diet. She tried, but the “withdrawal” drove her into bulimia, the disorder whose victims compulsively purge their bodies of recently eaten food, usually by vomiting. Though she repeatedly underwent therapy and hospitalization, this condition plagued her for years.
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Philip BerrollLiterature Al Capone, Al Jolson, Apocalypse Now, Barbara Walters, Barry Gray, Berroll, Carl Bernstein, Dispatches, Ed Sullivan, Eddie Murphy, Entertainment Tonight, Full Metal Jacket, German reunification, Godot, gossip industry, Helmsley, Herr, infanticipating, Ivana Trump, Jazz Age, John O'Hara, John Rankin, Josephine Baker, Journal-American, Joyce Haber, Kramer vs. Kramer, Leonard Lyons, Liz Smith, McKelway, Mother Teresa, Mr and Mrs America, organized crime, Pal Joey, People, phfft, red-baiters, Robert Benton, Rona Barrett, Roy Cohn, Runyon, Sherman Billingsley, Stork Club, The Ear, The New Yorker, The Untouchables, Tikkun, William Randolph Hearst, Winchell, Woolcott, Zola
Fifty years ago, The NewYorker devoted an unprecedented six issues to a profile of Walter Winchell – actually, it was more of an attack – by the essayist St.Clair McKelway. It was later published in book form. On the surface, this seems absurd. Winchell was not an artist, a statesman (except perhaps in his own mind), or a philosopher. He was a "reporter" and "broadcaster" in the very loosest sense – his words appeared in a newspaper, and he spoke into a microphone. But much of what he said and wrote had been given to him by others, and most of it was hardly profound – a potpourri of news "flashes," jokes, capsule reviews, political commentary, and above all, gossip about celebrities of the day.
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Philip BerrollLiterature 1960's, Berroll, Burigo, Colonie, D'Amato, FDR, FHA, Frank Trotta, Franklin Roosevelt, Hell's Kitchen, Liverpool, Lizzie Sanford, Maeby, New Deal, New York state university, Obrycki, Pataki, Peekskill, Reagan Democrats, Richie Garrett, samuel freedman, Shopwell, Small Victories, the inheritance, Tikkun, Tim Carey, Upon This Rock, working class Catholics
In a photograph at the front of this book, three fortyish political activists – Frank Trotta, Jr., Leslie Maeby, and Tim Carey – stand together at a restaurant in Peekskill, N.Y. Peekskill is the home base of conservative Republican George Pataki, who was elected New York's Governor in 1994 on promises to cut taxes and spending (i.e., social-service programs) and bring back the death penalty. Both Carey and Maeby worked for Pataki's campaign, and it's a safe bet that Trotta, a lifelong Republican, gave him his vote.
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Philip BerrollArts & Entertainment Blood Simple, Brainerd, brothers Coen, Buscemi, Coen brothers, Coens, David Mamet, Ethan Coen, Far North, Fargo, Farmer's Daughter, Grimsrud, Harve Presnell, homespun murder mystery, Jerry Lundegaard, Joel Coen, Lake Wobegon, Marge Gunderson, McDormand, Minneapolis, North Dakota, Oleanna, Scandinavian pioneers, Stormare, William H. Macy
Of the many striking scenes in Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo, two are especially memorable.
One is the opening sequence, where the credits roll over a landscape of utter blankness – a snow-covered highway in rural North Dakota – interrupted by a single car, towing another vehicle. It’s reminiscent of the first scene of Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and equally disturbing; it suggests both purity and terrifying isolation.
The other occurs about 15 minutes later: a housewife is sitting in her living room, watching a perky local morning show, when two men wearing black ski masks show up at her back door. The incongruity is almost comical... until one of the men pulls out a crowbar and starts smashing the door glass.
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Philip BerrollArts & Entertainment Abraham Polonsky, Anne Revere, Berroll, blacklist, Body and Soul, Canada Lee, Charlie Davis, Dust Be My Destiny, Edward G. Robinson, everybody dies, Film Society Lincoln Center, Force of Evil, Four Daughters, Gentleman's Agreement, Group Theater, House Un-American Activities Committee, Jack London, James M. Cain, Joe Morse, John Garfield, Julius Garfinkle, Kazan, Keitel, Lana Turner, Odets, Pacino, Postman Always Rings Twice, Pride of the Marines, Resident, Robert Rossen, Strasberg, The Sea Wolf, They Made Me a Criminal, Warner Brothers
"What are you gonna do, kill me?" says John Garfield, as boxer Charlie Davis, to the mobster for whom he refuses to throw a fight. "Everybody dies!" The line is typical Garfield: defiant, but with an underlying sense of his own mortality. It's from the classic boxing drama Body and Soul (1947) – a highlight of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's series, “Running All The Way: The Films of John Garfield,” which runs for three weeks starting August 9. This retrospective is long overdue for an actor who despite a substantial body of work – more than 30 films, some legitimate classics – has never quite earned the iconic status of some of his contemporaries in the decades since his untimely death.
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