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With Ellen, Tom faces "December of longing, and perhaps a renewal of Saturdays of anguish." But not only with her--he reaches out in vain to others. "How much can you cry for a person you cannot have?", asks Ellen, who cannot possibly understand...
Perhaps more significant than the film's preoccupation with the problems of communication and concomitant alienation is the step it may mark in Bergman's intellectual development. For amidst all the silent anguish, there is no search for God, no solace in Bergman-style pseudo religion, as in Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Instead, Bergman now seems to suggest that man must stand alone, without the crutch of a religious vocabulary. It is unfortunate that neither this encouraging thematic advance nor Bergman's filmic mastery can hush the grating content which disrupts The Silence...
...same judge handled the proceedings. While her husband presided over a board meeting in Detroit, Anne McDonnell Ford, 44, ended her six weeks in Idaho with a 20-minute divorce court appearance that terminated her 23-year marriage to Henry Ford II on grounds of mental anguish. The settlement, according to friends, was a staggeringly generous $16 million plus, along with custody of their son Edsel, 14. Daughters Charlotte, 22, and Anne, 21, were not at issue, since they are not minors. With the marriage finally sundered, Ford was free to wed his friend of four years, Italian Divorcee Christina...
Although the settlement represented less than 3% of the $10,500,000 that Bryant was asking, the $300,000 is taxfree. It will come to him as compensatory damages-direct payment for the anguish, the loss of salary and the loss of face in the football community that he may have suffered because of the Post's accusations. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service does not consider such payments taxable, although punitive damages in libel cases-damages assessed as fines against the libeler but paid to the libeled person-are taxed as regular income...
...life, seldom seem lethal. But in Miss Sarraute's special world, all the characters appear flayed alive in advance. Like the cartoon creatures of Jules Feiffer, they fear nothing so much as loneliness; they long to make human contact. But when they plunge together, each touch inevitably is anguish...