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Word: agda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adele, played by Gunnel Lindblom, is a sullen servant wretch whose impending miscarriage climaxes a lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: By Northern Lights | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...flashback interlude, Lesbianism upsets the curriculum of a sedate girls' school where normal curiosity is rigidly suppressed. In another sequence, Adele, Angela and Agda assemble for midsummer revelry at a vast country estate. Agda is lured into the woods by the son of the hostess (Eva Dahlbeck), herself a bored creature who slips upstairs to keep a rendezvous with an artist and finds him wearing her filmiest negligee. "Marriage," Angela muses forlornly, "is like falling asleep for the rest of your life." Though Director Zetterling often seems overzealous in deploring the dilemma of women, she times her surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: By Northern Lights | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Human beings are the world's most important natural resource, and the United Nations is trying to see that this resource is used to its fullest extent, said Mme. Agda Rossel, Swedish ambassador to the U.N., last night at the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Cares for People, Rossel Says In First of Hammarskjold Lectures | 11/28/1962 | See Source »

...Agda Rossel, head of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations, will deliver the first annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Delegate to Give Hammarskjold Speech | 11/18/1962 | See Source »

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