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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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And the Decade's Winners Are
(January 2010)
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On Screen And the Decade's Winners Are... By Raphael Shargel The end of the 21 st century's first decade has prompted me to look back at the movies it has turned out. On the whole,...
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Giving License to the Abominable
(September 2009)
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OnScreen Giving License to the Abominable By Raphael Shargel Some months ago, a friend and I walking in the college town where I live turned a corner and found ourselves facing a...
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On Screen
(January 2009)
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On Screen The Test of Time By Raphael Shargel EVERY YEAR two indicators alert moviegoers that Hollywood has entered awards season: The temperature drops and big-budget films are set in...
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On Screen
(January 2008)
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On Screen The Year That Failed By Raphael Shargel READING the upbeat end-ofthe-year critical film roundups made me feel like a curmudgeon. Even by contemporary standards, 2007 had...
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On Screen
(September 2007)
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On Screen Lost Ways of Seeing the World By Raphael Shargel WHEN I READ the obituaries of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni, who died on July 30, and Phil Rizzuto, who passed...
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On Screen
(March 2007)
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OnScreen In Praise of American Re ctitude By Raphael Shargel BOWING TO the unwritten rule that every red-blooded American male must subject himself to repeated viewings of the father...
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Reel Pleasures
(January 2006)
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On Screen Reel Pleasures By Raphael Shargel IN an episode of the short-lived 1990s television series The Critic, film reviewing was derided as one of the most hated professions. If there...
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On Screen
(November 2005)
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On Screen Professions of Love By Raphael Shargel The movie musical is making a comeback, albeit gropingly. Convinced today's audiences will not line up for the sort of confections...
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Studies in Restraint
(July 2005)
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On Screen Studies in Restraint and Excess By Raphael Shargel INGMAR Bergman's Saraband had its American debut last October at the New York Film Festival, and opened quietly in early July at...
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conflicting Concepts of Evil
(May 2005)
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On Screen Conflicting Concepts of Evil By Raphael Shargel THIS SUMMER I am in the embarrassing position of finding my tastes corresponding with the box office numbers. George Lucas'...
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Why Oscar Got It Right
(March 2005)
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On Screen Why Oscar Got It Right By Raphael Shargel Finally, the Academy Awards got most things right. For the first time since Best Picture wentto Annie Hallin 1977, the winner in that...
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Tests of Flesh
(February 2005)
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On Screen Tests of Flesh By Raphael Shargel When asked to comment on the movies of 2004, I smile and say, "Best year of the millennium!" My tongue is only half in cheek. Over 12 months...
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Mixed Morals
(November 2004)
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On Screen Mixed Morals By Raphael Shargel Toward the end of Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express, three weary children board a locomotive on their way home from the North Pole. It has been...
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ON SCREEN
(September 2004)
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On Screen Muted Rebellions By Raphael Shargel After A summer of releases by minor figures like Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 2), M. Night Shyamalan (The Village) and Michael Mann (Collateral),...
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On Screen
(July 2004)
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On Screen Lighting Fires By Raphael Shargel DURING A SUMMER filled with blockbuster exercises in senseless demolition, the most incendiary film of the season is a documentary, Michael...
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On Screen
(March 2004)
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On Screen The Exaltation of Brutality By Raphael Shargel At the end of The Passion of the Christ we witness the resurrection. A refreshed Jesus (Jim Caviezel), shot in profile,...
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On Screen
(January 2004)
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On Screen Business Before Art By Raphael Shargel WHILE CHECKING the arts pages for advance reports about this winter's film releases, I became aware of a distressing new trend....
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Dead-end Fantasies
(September 2003)
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On Screen Dead-end Fantasies By Raphael Shargel Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano ended with a rather sneaky trick. As the protagonist was freed from a torturous marriage and embraced her...
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On Screen
(July 2003)
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On Screen Comic Book Summer By Raphael Shargel Remember when the most eagerly anticipated bigbudget films were adaptations of well-known novels? Those days are over. The state of...
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A Trend Toward Loneliness
(January 2003)
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On Screen A Trend Toward Loneliness By Raphael Shargel Loneliness loomed large in the movies of 2002—perhaps reflecting our current political anxieties. In the 1990s and early in this...
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Last Rays and Shadows of Summer
(September 2002)
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On Screen Last Rays and Shadows of Summer By Raphael Shargel Hollywood wisdom has it that kids should be the target audience in summer, when they are free from school and parents are eager...
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Different Paths to the Future
(July 2002)
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On Screen Different Paths to the Future By Raphael Shargel If financial returns and commercial influence are the yardsticks of achievement, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are our...
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On Screen
(March 2002)
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On Screen Rewarding the Reckless By Raphael Shargel Films about individuals who triumph over the system have been consistently popular since the days of Frank Capra. And in this era of...
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On Screen
(January 2002)
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On Screen The Triumph of 'Star Wars' By Raphael Shargel They say critics are frustrated artists; my own response to the events of September 11 proves I am no exception. Since that day I...
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On Screen
(September 2001)
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On Screm Where Hope Still Looms By Raphael Shargel CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that in hard times the cinema accommodates audiences yearning for mindless escapism. In fact, the reverse...
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On Screen
(July 2001)
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On Screen Artificial Emotions By Raphael Shargel BILLED AS having been co-produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin studios and Stanley Kubrick, A.I. will be the last new work to feature...
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On Screen
(January 2001)
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On Screen Last Minute Pleasures By Raphael Shargel For serious filmgoers, December is usually the kindest month. Not last winter though. Indeed, throughout 2000 we reaped such...
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On Screen
(November 2000)
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On Screen From Bad to Better By Raphael Shargel Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, Robert Altaian's Dr. ? and the Women, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled were all released in the United...
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On Screen
(July 2000)
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On Screen Fast Food Films By Raphael Shargel In one of the year's most reviled movies, Battlefield Earth, adapted from a novel by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and...
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On Screen
(March 2000)
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On Screen Hollywood's Meanness of Spirit By Raphael Shargel If we film critics were people of unblemished dignity, we would simply ignore the Academy Awards. Every year, we complain so...
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On Screen
(November 1999)
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On Screen SOCIAL OUTRAGE SEASON By Raphael Shargel After months of summer frivolity, serious moviegoers look eagerly toward fall, when Oscar-hungry studio executives tend to release their...
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On Screen
(September 1999)
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On Screen CONFUSING SUCCESS WITH PROFIT By Raphael Shargel Multiplying faster than the evil hordes in the Alien movies, possessing theaters longer than the devil did Linda Blair in The...
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On Screen
(August 1999)
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On Screen KUBRICK'S FINAL ODYSSEY By Raphael Shargel Twice during Eyes Wide Shut, the obsessively brilliant movie Stanley Kubrick completed just before his death, Alice Harford (Nicole...
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On Screen
(July 1999)
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On Screen REALMS OF FANTASY By Raphael Shargel Anyone looking for evidence that film is in essence a visual medium need only consult recent cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare'splays. Baz...
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On Screen
(April 1999)
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On Screen WOMEN IN TROUBLE By Raphael Shargel Actress Patricia Neal and director Robert Airman, who work together for the first time in Cookies Fortune, are about the same age but belong...
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On Screen
(March 1999)
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On Screen RENAISSANCE RIVALRY By Raphael Shargel Although I had heard nothing but praise for Shakespeare in Love, and was impressed when it garnered 13 Academy Awards nominations—an honor...
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On Screen
(January 1999)
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On Screen TRIUMPHS OF INDEPENDENCE By Raphael Shargel Miracles can happen, even in today's Hollywood. After 20 years of silence, Terrence Malick, the extraordinary writer-director of...
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Epic Mice
(November 1998)
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On Screen EPIC MICE By Raphael Shargel If films of genuine quality don't arrive soon to perk up the holiday season, 1998 may well be remembered as a year of missed opportunities. Many of...
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A Bloody Crowd
(September 1998)
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On Screen A BLOODY CROWD PLEASER By Raphael Shargel There is no denying the intensely visceral power of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. In depicting combat on D-Day and during...
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An Unhappy Artifact
(August 1998)
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On Screen AN UNHAPPY ARTIFACT By Raphael Shargel In a burst of millennial enthusiasm, the American Film Institute (AFI) has released a list of the top 100 American movies of all time....
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Fallen Innocents
(May 1998)
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On Screen FALLEN INNOCENTS By Raphael Shargel David Mamet's favorite game is the high stakes con. In his best movies, a team of conspirators fleeces a privileged and gullible individual. But...
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Contrasts in Crime
(March 1998)
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On Screen CONTRASTS IN CRIME By Raphael Shargel Los Angeles, 1990. Bunny Lebowski (Tara Reid), nymphomaniacal trophy wife of elderly philanthropist Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston),...
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Hollywood Looks at Itself
(February 1998)
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On Screen HOLLYWOOD LOOKS AT ITSELF By Raphael Shargel Before each Academy Awards ceremony, with its television audience of a billion viewers, stars scheduled to participate fuss over...
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Time of Chaos
(January 1998)
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On Screen TIMES OF CHAOS By Raphael Shargel Based on events that transpired in 1839-40, Steven Spielberg's Amistad concerns a group of African captives aboard a Spanish vessel who break...
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Spiced Up Henry James
(December 1997)
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On Screen SPICED UP HENRY JAMES By Raphael Shargel For a while, it seemed that every Merchant-Ivory imitator in England and this country wanted to do a movie from a Jane Austen novel. Now,...
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Careless
(December 1997)
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On Screen LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND CARELESS By Raphael Shargel For a number of years now a mythic vision of 1970s culture has been filling movie screens. Films like Gus Van Sant's...
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Noir in the '90s
(October 1997)
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On Screen NOIR IN THE '90s By Raphael Shargel I am always intrigued when a new movie is billed as a film noir; the term evokes the manner and ethos of another era. Coined by French critics to...
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On Screen
(September 1997)
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On Screen GENDER AND GENRE BENDING By Raphael Shargel Halfway Through G.I. Jane, Master Chief John Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen) interrogates Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore) in a rather...
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On Screen
(August 1997)
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On Screen SAGAN GUMPED By Raphael Shargel Ellie Arroway does not believe in God, but she has an abiding faith in radio. Her father, who encouraged her love for electronics, died when she...
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On Screen
(July 1997)
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On Screen THE DOGS OF SUMMER By Raphael Shargel Face/Off is so full of smash and scream, fire and blood, anger and tumult that it frequently lapses into incomprehensibility. Its characters...
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On Film
(June 1997)
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On Screen UNEXPECTED LUMET By Raphael Shargel With Night Falls on Manhattan, Sidney Lumet begins his fifth decade as a director of feature films. His body of work includes Twelve Angry Men,...
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SHARLET, ROBERT
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SHARPE, KENNETH E.
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SHARPIRO, HARVEY D.
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SHARTS, JOSEPH W.
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SHATTAN, JOSEPH
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SHATTEN, FRITZ
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Shaw, Bernard
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SHAW, BRUNO
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SHAW, KINN WEI
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SHAW, PETER
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SHECHNER, MARK
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SHEFFER, ISAIAH
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Sheilds, Art
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SHELDON", "HENRY M. CHRISTMAN, G. M. LANZILOTTI, COURTNEY
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SHELDON, BICKNELL EUBANKS, COURTNEY R.
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Sheldon, Courtney R.
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SHELDON, COURTNEY R.
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SHELDON, FRANK MANKIEWICZ, COURTNEY R.
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SHELDON, JOSEPH KAHN, COURTNEY
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SHELLEY, LOUISE I.
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SHENITZ, BRUCE
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Shenk, Fritz
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SHENKER, ISRAEL
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SHEPARD, RICH ARD F.
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SHEPHERD, GEORGE W. Jr.
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SHEPLEY, JOHN
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SHEPPARD, RON
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SHERMAN, A.V.
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Sherman, Aleph V.
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Sherwin, Mark
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Shields, Art
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SHILS, EDWARD A.
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Shipey, Joseph T.
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Shiplacoff, A. I.
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SHIPLER, GUY EMERY Jr.
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Shubert., Lee and J. J.
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Shulman, Frederick
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SHUSTER, S. M. LEVITAS: SIDNEY HOOK AND GEORGE
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