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TIME: The magnificent twist that Bergman runs in his characters is to make them do monstrous things yet make them, if not sympathetic, certainly pitiable. And with Henrik, I think we can see that Karen is his only link to Anna. Because the look the two people exchange before they...
Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the...
A few weeks ago, I spoke at the commencement at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. I stood in view of the spot where Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held one of their famous debates during their race for the U.S. Senate. The only way for Lincoln to get onto the podium...
The irony was inevitable. While Olof Palme's life reflected his belief in an open society, his funeral was surrounded by the tightest security Stockholm had ever seen. As the hand-drawn catafalque carrying the slain Prime Minister's coffin wound through the streets, 2,000 police, paramilitary troops and...
Another name should be added to their ranks: British Mystery Writer Ruth Rendell, who since 1964 has published 26 novels and four volumes of short stories, all of them intelligent, trenchant and graceful. This summer she will introduce an additional byline, Barbara Vine, which will accommodate her high productivity and...