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Mundal (pop. 150) is in the heart of Norway's scenic fjord country, and cruise-ship guides point it out as the place where Walter Mondale has his roots. Although nearly all Mondale's relatives left for the U.S. 130 years ago, the name evokes considerable civic pride. At the Mundal Hotel, where Mondale stayed in 1979, Manager Billie Orheim displays a guest book that reads, "Joan and I were thrilled to return home...
...across the fjord in Vangsnes (pop. 270) some folks, including Mondale's fourth cousin Gunda Langeteig, have a different view of history. Mondale's great grandfather, Frederick Vangsnes, was a native of Vangsnes, the town, she says. He went across to Mundal, where he married Brita Mundal and for some reason took her name. "If he had not done so, Walter Vangsnes would be the Democratic presidential candidate," she declares. The fjord rivalry has risen along with Mondale's fortunes. "We are not interested in a fight over which place has the thickest Mondale roots," insists...
Flintstong: "Of course. I indicated quite clearly that they a better get to the surface and untangle my nets, or they could expect trouble from Fjord Flintstong...
...watch her dead past revive, her dreams destroyed and her only son slip into syphilitic madness, all in a day. As Ullmann has proved under the direction of Ingmar Bergman, she is an actress of depth and stature. This time, however, she seems mostly at sea, or up the fjord. Director John Neville (who also chews through the role of Pastor Manders) has staged Ibsen as if the playwright were the resident bard of the Vincent Crummies Acting Company from Nicholas Nickleby: all pregnant pauses, awkward gestures, broad hints and unexpected laughs. Neville's Ghosts seems to have taken...
...result, the glacier's front end could shrink back off the shoal into the deeper water upstream. Its new face, extending to the bottom of the fjord, would then be three or more times the height of the old, and quite unstable. Calving could accelerate five to 50 times its current rate. As much as a cubic mile of ice might be dumped into the bay each year for the next 30 to 50 years, until the glacier retreats to a new and stable foothold...