Word: electras
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...having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference to life. Her doctor insists that her inactivity is simply another form of roleplaying, and he sends her packing to a villa on the Baltic in the company of a nurse (Bibi Andersson...
When the actress writes a letter to the doctor revealing her nurse's past tragedy, the nurse savagely turns on her, implying that she is playing Electra in real life as well as on the stage. The outburst serves as a catharsis that seems to make the nurse well. In the end, she leaves the villa to return to life; the actress, presumably, returns to the stage...
...needed. Under Gross, who became chairman on the death of his brother Robert in 1961, Lockheed has overcome its troubles of the 1950s, when it was beset by costly flops on a couple of aircraft (Saturn and Constitution) and crashes on others, notably the Electra. As the Defense Department's biggest single contractor five years running, Lockheed has seen its profits increase to more than $51 million (on sales of over $2 billion) last year v. $37,200,000 in 1962. Though disappointed over losing the SST competition to Boeing, the company expects continuing defense demands, diversification into such...
...ELECTRA: Tell him they've installed an ice cream counter. (They pass another row of stalls. Ellen stops and stares...
...ELECTRA: Sigh. Sigh. Down here it says: "Sue Hinks, I miss you." I'd like to find out what their saying about good old hot lips Elec...