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Develop interest in an unpronounceable Scandinavian rock band and play its music with obsessive frequency on the college radio station...
That's for phlegmatic Swedish policeman Stefan Lindman to discover. Lindman is struggling with his own doom--he has been diagnosed with cancer--but he's dogged in his pursuit of an investigation that drags him into the world of Swedish Nazis and the eerie quiet of the deep Scandinavian countryside, where distances are vast and detectives...
...SOSKIN: On Kaufman’s alleged greatness: the very same year that Adaptation came out, there was a wonderful Scandinavian film called Songs from the Second Floor that managed to be audacious, innovative, accessible and convoluted all at once. But the ease or difficulty of such a feat shouldn’t be the issue here: Kaufman, along with “creative” filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky, have proven that audacity and innovation don’t automatically beget relatable characters, untiresome plotting, or, as I alluded to with the “sadness?...
...unpopularity amongst undergraduates so decimating that it has a post-apocalyptic feeling. But I love Hilles— the way it looms, bright-lit, above you suddenly as you leave Garden Street, its layered staircases as complex as those in an Escher engraving; the way the low-slung Scandinavian Modern chairs bear mismatched cushions, piled in quixotic efforts to render them more comfortable; the way that you can claim entire floors for yourself—an impossibility in densely-peopled Lamont. I love that someone had a modernist vision so complete that the furnishings and even stacks echo the architecture...
...heard every reason to get a wi-fi--equipped laptop, here's a new one: live broadband Internet access on airplanes. This April, Lufthansa will begin to offer the wireless broadband service Connexion by Boeing on certain transatlantic flights. Other airlines are quickly moving to provide similar features. Both Scandinavian Airlines System and Japan Airlines will have in-flight broadband by the end of the year...