Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original price: $19,000), lives alone in a bungalow that looks like a highbrow junk pile. Some items: five aquariums for tropical fish, antique Oriental sculpture, a reed organ, a library on Mayan architecture. There, looking like an outsize Dylan Thomas, he delights in cooking dinners (Creole, French, Italian, Scandinavian or Oriental) for as many as 35 guests...
Ordet (The Word) is another religious film of the same midnight-sunny Scandinavian sort. Based on a play of the same title by Kaj Munk, the Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered, probably on Gestapo orders, in 1944, the picture does not tell a story so much as it poses an allegory. A village divided by religious faction into "life-affirming" and "death-seeking" sects is intended to signify what is rotten in the state of Denmark's soul, and in the world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized...
Torment is a Swedish movie starring Alf Kjellin as an artistic, sensitive Scandinavian preppie who falls in love with the local tobacco shop salesgirl, played by Mai Zetterling. The third member of the tormented triangle is the boy's middle-aged, lecherous Latin teacher, a tyrant named Caligula...
Story or not, thousands of people crowded the Malls of the Scandinavian countries where indoor facilities were too small for his concerts. "You just have to introduce your songs a little slower, and sing a little slower," he said and probably they don't understand a lot of the words. But still, thirty to forty thousand people every time...
...Mikoyan's name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious "doctors' plot"; in his famed secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev said that Stalin then scathingly "characterized Molotov and Mikoyan" and "evidently had plans to finish them off." After negotiating a trade agreement with one Scandinavian nation, Mikoyan had become a close acquaintance of the country's ambassador, who entertained him frequently. In their family circle Mikoyan relaxed and played parlor games. But in that winter Mikoyan cut his friend and other foreign acquaintances dead...