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Cries and Whispers. Bergman's latest, filmed with a crimson colored Gothic expressionism reminiscent of Edvard Munch. Set in a turn of the century manor house, two sisters (Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin) along with a peasant servant (Kari Sylwun) attend their dying sister (Harriet Andersson). Bergman uses the women schematically--the Woman as Other--to play out his 'nothingness' theme: the ultimate isolation of every human being, the tissue of lies that passes for communication between men, the meaningless of extra-human faith, the nothingness at the heart of it. Harvard Square...
...setting for most of the action, is everything you might expect to find in a position of honor at an Orange County boat show. It is a distracting picture of gaudiness, pannelled cabins and wall to wall carpeting, mansion sized bedrooms and an invisible crew. Like Sleuth's manor, the yacht is stocked with games. On seeing the living room for the first time, Dyan Cannon remarks, "Who designed this place -- Parker Brothers?" Ross dots the boat with dartboards and three dimensional chess sets, but Sleuth much better exploited the idea of the games player. Sheila's boat...
...farm from her father Christopher Chenery, the public utilities magnate who founded the stable. The wife of John Tweedy, executive vice president of The Oil Shale Corp., and the mother of four, Mrs. Tweedy has been a lifelong horsewoman, a rider of show horses since her childhood in Pelham Manor, N.Y. After Smith College and a stint as a Red Cross "donut dolly" in France and Germany during World War II, she entered the Columbia Graduate School of Business. The training, says the regally attractive president of Meadow Stud, Inc., "gives me confidence in running my family's business...
...Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe out the son's inheritance at roulette and, with a nasty sneer, take over the manor himself...
...fired from the Wilton Manor police department after six months be cause of what Police Chief Bernard Scott called a "lack of common sense...