Word: aghast
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...Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician-they have carried off top prizes at the big film festivals and set the turnstiles twirling on the commercial circuits as no Scandinavian film has done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product of Bergman's imagination, a religious horror picture called The Virgin Spring (TIME, Feb. 29) that contains "the most terrible rape and murder scenes ever seen in a film." A Stockholm critic called it "Bergman's best...
...corners her in his den, crushes her in his arms. Suddenly he stares aghast at her shoulder. "Where is it?" "I had it removed." "Our mole?" Kay breaks free, runs around the room with a rose in her teeth. Yul seizes her again. She threatens to scream. He (masterfully): "Go on, scream." She (weakening): "In a minute." He leads her toward the bedroom. "Oh!" she gasps. "I knew this would happen if we got married." She blinks up at him shyly. "Promise me you won't think less of me?" He smirks confidently as she glides away, glides back...
...only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure. Naturally, I would like to see my boys train longer, but if I took them out of their factories, they'd never get back in again." Liechtensteiner parents are aghast at the idea of their athletic offspring's losing a month's wages sliding around Squaw Valley on a pair of sticks. The only subsidy that the skiers receive is free Ovomaltine to balance out their diet...
...Oceanographers believe that man is approaching the point where he can try large-scale experiments on the ocean. Not all of them like this prospect; they feel that tinkering with the ocean without sufficient knowledge may be extremely dangerous. They are aghast at the project much discussed by the Russians, of using atomic energy to clear the Arctic Ocean of ice to help Siberian sea transport. Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory believes that the Northern Hemisphere's comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean...
...nine years Baldy has sought to depict the plight of the reasonable Southerner who, like himself, stands aghast between the extremists. He has, for example, shown two antagonists locked in mortal combat, one labeled "Reality," the other labeled "Tradition." The caption: "It's a tough fight, Ma!" Baldy put "Reality...