Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aptly Named. Everyone involved was doubly elated, since there were times during the past nine years when it seemed unlikely that the Concorde would ever be built, much less get off the ground. Incessant wrangling between France and Britain about entry into the Common Market threatened an embarrassing end to the project. But through all the bickering, technicians of France's Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation got along famously. For them, at least, the Concorde has more than lived up to its name, producing the kind of amity that De Gaulle seems determined to frustrate. Said Britain...
...other major steel firms showed no real opposition to the merger. "The other steel companies have become strong enough to withstand any kind of competition," explained Hosai Hyuga, president of Sumitomo Metal Industries. Indeed, some competitors are counting on the trend to concentration in steel to help bring an end to the wild price fluctuations that have kept profits at a low 2% to 3% in recent years...
Furious, Lena picks a fight with Börje, who takes off back to the city in his MG. At film's end, the two have paid a joint visit to a delousing clinic and have effected a kind of Pirandellian reconciliation, applying less to their roles in the movie than to their extracurricular relationship. Intercut with this dreary dramaturgy are endless man-on-the-street interviews conducted by Lena ("Do you think that Swedish society has a class system?" "Do you belong to the labor movement?") and lots of shots of Sjöman making the film...
...possible to sympathize with this man who is by his own admission contemptible. That is the best measure of Blocker's accomplishment. In the end, when he, Saul, and Saul's general leave the witch, it is only Blocker's Minister who carries the burden of the vision of imminent doom she has shown them...
...away, seem to be trying to wake everyone up. But if Shame is a dream, it's still far from the nightmare of Hour of the Wolf, for there we watched a man at war with himself; here it's men at war with each other. And while the end of Hour left us with nothing but cold fear, Bergman at least chooses a hopeful literary device for his final symbol in Shame, when Eva describes her dream: "I was watching a wall with a rose--then an airplane came and set fire to the rose. But it wasn...