Word: fjorded
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...audience alike are all trying to make sense of Isak's life, to understand how such an outwardly successful old man could be so inwardly confused. The narration does not take the condescendingly didactic, omniscient tone of other looking-back-on-life flicks, creating a sort of "And a Fjord Runs Through It." Instead, it generates an air of expectation by hinting at grandiose themes without explicitly laying claim to them...
...going to leave you a country where you can't climb every mountain, fjord every stream, follow every rainbow until you find your dream," he said, borrowing liberally form the musical, "The Sound of Music...
...Dorf went at the job too eagerly. His monologues were written to be really, really boring. Dreadfully boring. Without Morgan's skill in the part, I might well have started screaming in pain. As was, I discovered that you can rearrange the letters in "Jon Dorf" to spell "no fjord," and the letters in "Loeb Ex" to spell "eel box." By such means did I cling to sanity...
...consists of three objects -- a tower, a tube and a black box. Visitors enter through a silver-and-black-striped tower. The interior walls are 29-ft.- high, 6-in.-thick ice sheets, making a perfectly Scandinavian space -- frigid, shipshape, elegant and grave, a well-engineered mini-fjord. On into the 12-ft.-wide tube, which contains the exhibition space. Outside, the tube resembles a giant clothes-dryer ventilation duct and sits in a pool atop a black plinth -- and inside the plinth, in turn, is an aquavit-and-herring restaurant...
...virtually unopposed conquest of Denmark took only a few hours. Casualties on both sides totaled 56. Norway offered somewhat more resistance. As a German naval task force steamed up the fjord leading to Oslo, the Oscarsborg Fort outside the capital opened fire with its turn-of-the-century German cannons and sank the heavy cruiser Blucher, killing more than 1,000 Germans. Among them were Gestapo agents under orders to seize King Haakon VII. Reprieved, the 67-year-old King fled northward on a railroad train, along with the national gold supply, 23 tons...