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Last week Stephan Krawczyk, 32, a popular antiestablishment folk singer, and his wife Freya Klier, 37, a theater director, left the country rather than face charges of treasonable activities. The singer, once praised by the regime, had become an increasingly strident dissident. Krawczyk was arrested, along with about 120 others, following a Jan. 17 Communist Party rally in East Berlin during which protesters displayed banners calling for greater democracy. A poster quoted Rosa Luxemburg, a Communist heroine whose murder in 1919 was being commemorated that day: FREEDOM IS ALWAYS THE FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY...
...wanting to miss any big-new-story bases, Forsyth throws in the maiden voyage of the world's biggest oil tanker, the Freya, hauling one million barrels of crude into Rotterdam. Anyone who has ever read a book or seen a movie knows as soon as you hear "maiden voyage," you better reserve a seat on the lifeboat. The ship and the Kremlin and the Ukranians and the White House all begin high-speed confrontations and near confrontations as Forsyth builds the tension. Which he does brilliantly. He spends several paragraphs in each location and uses almost cinematic cuts, back...
...rural estate. Over the years, their floating orgy suffers prolonged periods of inactivity. In their old age, however, Van and Ada reunite and mate?now in a highly figurative way?melding into an unbeing that Nabokov calls Vaniada. Licensed allusion hunters will find that Vanadis is an epithet for Freya, the popular Swedish sex goddess who was also close to her brother...
...Aryan professor who gets in the way of marching events in 1933 is played with back-bending restraint by Frank Morgan, who once more reveals that his bag of tricks includes far more than his usual movie titter. The swastika soon crosses the romance between daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan), and her boy friend Fritz (Robert Young). Fritz's transformation from a windy but amiable young donkey into an expert instrument of hatred remains awesome even in a world where it has happened so often. Gradually father, mother, sons, see their world wavering around them, its old, familiar outlines dissolving...
...skis do not carry Freya quite far enough. A bullet beats her to the border...