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...characters who people Truffaut's film all attempt to carry on in the theater within this muffled and surreal atmosphere. The Theatre Montmartre, despite its trouble with censors and with its owner underground because he is a Jew, is rehearsing a production of an insipid Norwegian melodrama entitled "The Disappearance." The play has to be inspidid to please the censors and a certain Daxiat, a collaborating theater critic who speaks the language of civility and art but whose reviews are rabid diatribes, poison pen letters under the guise of apolitical culture. As the troupe carries on rehearsals of the play...
...increasingly unpopular Odvar Nordli, 53. A physician with a Harvard master's degree in public health, Brundtland thus became the third member of that highly exclusive club-women heads of government (along with Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi). Nicknamed "the green goddess" for her impassioned protection of the Norwegian woods, Brundtland favors backing NATO strongly and stationing U.S. military equipment in Norway. But some Norwegians are more impressed with her talent for building political coalitions...
...seven figures. Lauren Hutton in 1973 signed an exclusive contract with Revlon. Tiegs has a two-year deal with Sears under which she lends her name to a line of jeans and tops and receives more than $1 million, plus a share of the profits. The fine-boned Norwegian-American brunette who calls herself Clotilde is the Shiseido cosmetics girl in Japan and the Ralph Lauren girl in the U.S. (In this business in which young girls are women, the women are still girls; the terminology of liberation seems to have had no effect.) Some...
...Erickson was a highly impressionable Norwegian lad from Wisconsin...
...sense of law. Their supreme artifacts were their longships, beakprowed and clinker-built, with a shallow draft so that they could be rowed straight up on the beach for surprise attack, like landing craft, and usually powered by 30 or more oars. Alas, the Viking ships found in such Norwegian burial sites as Gok-stad and Oseberg, and now preserved in Oslo, are too fragile to cross the Atlantic. But as a sort of extension of the Metropolitan exhibition, a two-thirds scale model of one is being displayed at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan...