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Ingmar Bergman used to say, "I make each film as if it were my last." The ( astringent passion he poured into his metaphysical melodramas -- The Seventh Seal, Persona, Autumn Sonata and many others -- testifies to that truth. So no one thought Bergman was kidding when in 1983 he declared that After the Rehearsal would be his last film. He was 65, a good age for a parson or a burgher to retire, and he had always been a most reliably productive artist: in the winter doing his job directing plays at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, in the summer making...
...autumn, like other universities, Harvard pays the most attention to its football team. Led by Head Coach Joe Restic, the Crimson this fall hopes to break a two-year losing streak in The Game against those pesky Yalies...
PEROT LEADS IN NEW POLL" has become so frequent a bulletin that the Texas billionaire's image has changed from interesting maverick to serious presidential contender. If Ross Perot does endure as a major force into autumn, one large reason will be the opinion surveys of spring, despite their notorious fragility during this period. Says pollster Peter Hart: "More than any other person I can think of in American politics, Perot has been aided and abetted by the polls...
...continues as it has begun, 1992 could turn out to be almost as bizarre as 1991, a year in which North America's spring arrived in winter, its summer in spring and its winter in autumn. The period from December 1991 to March 1992 has already gone into the National Weather Service's record books as the warmest winter in at least 97 years. It hardly rained at all in rainy Seattle in May. Texas in January was swamped with twice as much precipitation as normal, and Southern California, where it never rains, was socked with floodwaters so powerful they...
Gomes had read a 56-page issue of the conservative magazine Peninsula--an issue devoted to articles critical of homosexuality--the day before. On a cool late autumn afternoon, and in the same booming tones and grammatically immaculate sentences with which he preaches, the voice carried a new message to students: Their minister...