Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport one day last week to meet her future in-laws. The visitors-Prince Xavier and Princess Magdalena-were coming to celebrate Irene's engagement to their son, Spain's Prince Carlos de Borbon y Parma, and with them was the royal engagement ring, a large ruby surrounded by diamonds. Quickly, Irene slipped it on and happily showed it off for the television cameras. Next day in The Hague, she and Carlos were toasted with champagne by the Dutch Cabinet, and busied themselves with wedding plans. Best guess is that the marriage will take...
Written and directed by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, the film closes the ring of the trilogy that began with Through a Glass Darkly and continued with Winter Light. In those films Bergman sought to illuminate the ills of men by poking through the ashes of religious faith. His concluding statement is a bold, unpredictable work, touched with genius, but at the same time murky, exasperating, and occasionally dull. Those expecting a magnum opus will be disappointed; so will those looking solely for sensation. For the blunt dialogue and the erotic scenes-shortened by 55 seconds for U.S. distribution-seem...
Certainly the system had weaknesses. There was a rule, for instance, that girls must be in Northampton from 9 a.m. Monday to 5 p.m. Friday all during January, and in a town like Northampton this rule has the ring of a prison sentence. Every one of the 2300 girls goes to see "Charade" at the local theatre. Every one races to the mailboxes to pick up the incoming mail twice a day. And everyone who can possible arrange it--perhaps half the school--escapes on the weekend...
...year: he packed his few belongings and set out to start life over again in the big city. But his new life is hardly better than the old one: occasionally he gets work as a bricklayer, and his home is a hovel in the "misery belt" of shantytowns that ring Mexico City. "I'd like to go back to my village," he says, "but there's no use talking about it. I'd just have to return here. There...
There are other players on the Princeton team besides Bradley. Complementing the Crystal City, Mo., miracle worker will be a quartet with the ad-agency ring of Hasrlow, Howard, Rodenbach and Roth...