Word: andersson
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...difference on the next lap. Renner, supplied with a replacement pole by a Canadian coach while in the transition area, held the position on her third-and-final lap, and Scott began the final loop a nose behind Finland's Virpi Kuitunen, neck-and-neck with Sweden's Lina Andersson. The race came down to the final stretch, when Andersson broke a stride clear of Scott to win the gold medal with Anna Dahlberg in 16 minutes 36.9 seconds. Scott, 31, and Renner, 29, finished 0.6 seconds behind for the silver. Finland won the bronze, 2.3 seconds off the pace...
...preserves the extravagant charm of the film. The live show hits all the right notes of cheeky camp, boasting tone-appropriate choreography and performances, especially by Charlie I. Miller ’08, who strikes the perfect note of slightly-weary debauchery as Frank-N-Furter, and David J. Andersson ’09 who slithers and hisses around as Riff Raff, the put-upon servant...
...Every 20 years or so, I get missionary about a Broadway show - to be exact, about the music I love in a certain Broadway show. In the 80s the show was Chess, with book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, late of the Swedish pop group ABBA. For me, Chess was by far the finest score of the decade, rich and varied and powerful, and thrillingly melodic. It put tunes in my head that still sit up and sing there. In TIME, I wrote about Chess when it was still an album...
FILM | Roy Andersson...
Renowned primarily for his ingenious television commercials, Swedish director Roy Andersson, former student of Ingmar Bergman, has also produced celebrated films. The most recent of these, Songs from the Second Floor, won the Prix du Jury of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Described as “a searing meditation on millennial decadence” by the Harvard Film Archive, the film is composed of 45 surreal, darkly comedic vignettes that highlight the absurdity of human existence against a dreary European backdrop. As for Andersson’s other films, catch A Swedish Love Story on Wednesday, October...