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...blood-soaked land we were passing through. Still, certain places with history caught us in their web so that we experienced more than our seatbelted cocoon. Just beyond Chattanooga was the battlefield of Chickamagua, where my great-great-grandfather was killed in 1863, leading his unit of a Wisconsin Norwegian regiment...
ANNA IS A STORY of poverty--not the poverty of social and political science, defined in terms of income or power, but poverty as a simple, unchanging fact of life. Told by a Norwegian woman of eighty, and compiled by journalist Dagfinn Gronoset, this narrative speaks with misleading ease of the unbelievable suffering and humiliation that Anna endured in the mountain farmlands of Scandinavia...
...squad should also receive some aid from freshman Alexander Vik, a Norwegian who has had the honor of playing for his country in a tournament over the winter. With the demise of the junior varsity, it is important that freshmen such as Vik stay interested in the sport. For this reason the varsity team might be expanding some this season, from eight to ten members...
...supporting cast cannot save A Doll's House if the Nora buckles. Still, this cast might be sued for nonsupport. With no trace of a guiding hand from Norwegian Director Tormod Skagestad, the players appear to be introducing themselves to each other at first rehearsal. As Torvald, Waterston is a mildly ruffled porcupine who can be dequilled instantly by Ullmann. Petty or not, Torvald should be a visible tyrant. After all, Nora is not slamming the door at middle-level management, but at the historic tyranny of convention...
...more, soon to be joined by monsters capable of carrying as much as 1 million tons of oil. Yet suddenly this prospect is fading. Dozens of supertankers are idle, and others are being laid up almost daily. Last week four 370,000-ton tankers on order for construction at Norwegian shipyards were withdrawn, bringing that nation's cancellation total to 26. For many of the high-rolling ship owners who gambled heavily on it, the great supertanker boom has turned into a painful superbust...