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What results is a portrait of a man and woman that is Bergman-like in its intense depiction of two beings who reach out to one another in an attempt to escape the prisons of their lonely souls. The Middle of the World inevitably raises comparisons with Scenes from a Marriage. But to group the two together, as some critics have done, is like terming Mrs. Dalloway and Pride and Prejudice similar works because each portrays a female as she relates to the people around her. Just as the stylistic innovations of Virginia Woolf's study make it part...
...Gerald Bergman, president of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Commission, told the council that "if one person in the city is surviving and doing well, it is Harvard...
...They should have to pay all they're on a level with the poorest individual in town," Bergman said. "Till we have equality we don't have justice...
When it comes to the stage, Ingrid Bergman dotes on second-rate plays. In recent years she has appeared in inferior O'Neill (More Stately Mansions), hand-me-down Shaw (Captain Brassbound's Conversion), and now in fossilized Maugham. Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace. Indeed, Elizabeth II would not fault Bergman's acting technique-a tilt of the head, a flash of a smile and the wave of a hand...
...Constant Wife, Bergman is Constance Middleton, an amiable, idle woman who plays hostess to life in a well-appointed drawing room. Her husband John (Jack Gwillim) is a prosperous Harley Street surgeon who is having an affair with Constance's best friend, a blonde married flibbertigibbet. Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told. But friends will tell...