Word: scandinavian
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...Liibeck shopgirl, he was raised by his grandfather to be a fervent blue-collar socialist. In 1933, to escape arrest by the Gestapo, he changed his name to Willy Brandt and fled to Scandinavia. In Norway and Sweden, his doctrinaire socialism was mellowed by experience of the more pragmatic Scandinavian brand...
...Hans Christian Andersen," he shyly admits. Cries Nordraak, eagerly: "Has Hans heard these?" Later, Grieg's wife Nina (Florence Henderson) sighs: "How do you suppose the others managed?" Replies a piano salesman played by Edward G. Robinson: "You mean Schubert and Liszt, for example?" When Grieg enters the Scandinavian Club in Rome, the clerk informs him, "A countryman of yours was asking for you." Grieg asks, "Who's that?" Replies the clerk: "Mr. Ibsen...
...federal, state and local funds support a center that trains the mentally retarded in simple job skills like assembling hair curlers. The city also has four hostels and three apartments in which retarded patients live. But such examples are rare, and Wolfensberger hopes for much wider acceptance of the Scandinavian approach...
...Moore's words, Language "stars four of what are apparently leading Scandinavian sexual technocrats, with brilliant cameo roles for the functioning flesh of various unnamed actors." The pedigreed experts drone on about the psychology of orgasm while nude sexual acrobats perform illustrations. "It purports to be an animated Little Golden Book of marital relations," wrote Judge Moore, "or perhaps the Kama Sutra of electronic media, although the film is nowhere nearly as rich in the variety of its smorgasbord of delights as comparison with that ancient Hindu classic might suggest. It may be the vulgate scripture, the Popular Mechanics...
...unlikely concerns for a new film by Ingmar Bergman. Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, and Hour of the Wolf have all developed these themes, groped for them, probed them, pried them loose from their existential moorings, and held them up for all to see against the ambiguous Scandinavian sky in their full mystery and complexity. The Passion of Anna, however, attempts no exploration into these. It presents them, parades them, but asks no questions, suggests no solutions...