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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...
Will Colinot Trousse Chemise be Brigitte Bardot's last picture? So she says. The French title is almost impossible to translate, but trousser means to hitch up a skirt, a shirt or whatever. Colinot, a 14th century peasant boy, does just that to the ladies. After finishing Colinot in Auvergne a few weeks ago, B.B., 38, is now cruising around Corsica with her boy friend Laurent Vergez, 28. Later on, she says, she intends to find herself a farm-unless someone talks her out of early retirement...
This rapid industrialization has had its hazards. Industry has been favored at the expense of agriculture. Even though the land reform in 1950 created a broad-based, independent peasant proprietorship for the first time in Korean history (North or South), the farmer has not shared equally in the boom...
...mistakes and shortcomings in class consciousness are attributed to a lack of thorough study of Chairman Mao's directives. Persuasion is the keynote-persuasion and reiteration. For two weeks of the six-month course, the cadres are sent off to live with peasant families, where they learn other farming techniques and gain an appreciation of how poorer classes of Chinese have, coped with their problems...
...wise old Cuban peasant made everyone stop talking in a small circle of exiles. He asked: "Have you ever heard of a brothel where the madam was a virgin?" R. GARCÍA-BÁRCENA Washington...