Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of the 2,200 pages contain only the official description of the course found in the course catalog. However, instructors and teaching staff are revising the pages at a rate of ten courses a day, said Paul F. Bergen, manager of the Instructional Computing Group...
...have to go to The Inn of the Sixth Happiness to find a decent heroine. Ingrid Bergman is no Candice Bergen, which is a wonderful thing for this quite touching movie. The tough and saintly Bergman runs an inn, befriends rebels, saves children and dodges Japanese bullets as gruff Curt Jurgens tags along and wins her heart. A romance with guts -- and Ingrid in one of her most endearing roles...
...between, you get a pensive McQueen proving that he could really act and a young and fanatical Richard Crenna proving why he could have been a contender but wound up second banana to Stallone in the Rambo canon. (And, disappointingly, Candice Bergen as the love interest, to whose acting the cheap-shot term "wooden" truly does apply.) A bit of a plodder, but plenty of powerful stuff. The short happy life of Po-hang, a year before Cool Hand Luke, will tear your heart...
...spoken in voice-over by Anne just as she and her family are being seized by the Nazis. The juxtaposition is ironic, ambiguous, chilling. Nor does the rewritten last scene offer any reassurance. Otto Frank, revisiting their hiding place after the war, describes the final sighting of Anne in Bergen-Belsen: "Anne's friend Hanneli sees Anne through the barbed wire, naked, her head shaved, covered with lice. 'I don't have anyone anymore,' she weeps. A few days later Anne dies...
...dispel the dark moods that dogged her through life, Truen Bergen tried every antidepressant imaginable. But she hated the side effects, which ranged from a sharp prickling sensation to mild hypertension. Then she heard about St. John's wort, a medicinal herb that has been used for centuries in teas and tinctures. "I figured it couldn't be any worse than the medication I was already taking," says Bergen, 49, an airline purser from San Diego, Calif. "Then, after two or three weeks, it dawned on me. I felt balanced and good. I felt happy...