Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theater. The festival features two classic new wave films per day, and if there is any problem with the movies it's that they are all too good to be taken in such short order. You get a good does of great Bergman this weekend, with The Seventh Seal tonight and Wild Strawberries on Sunday. Renoir's The Rules of the Game, one of the best social-political movies ever made, is showing tonight, followed on Saturday by The Grand Illusion, Renoir's anti-war film about the 1914 world conflict. Welles's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificient...
...these offerings impress the Abaloneans? Not on your tintype. Their expectations run more to trained-seal acts and Bobo the Dog-faced Boy, and their minds are thus unconditioned to accept such wonders. True members of the American booboisie, they heckle Dr. Lao and his magician during the performance and walk silently out into the hard Arizona sunlight when it is over. One suspects that Sinclair Lewis' Main Streeters might have done much the same thing...
Tropical Klondike. The illegal emerald trade has slowed somewhat since last July, when the government sent in an army division to seal off the biggest mining area and root out thousands of squatters, grifters and smugglers who had turned the zone into a kind of tropical Klondike. Yet many prospectors continue to slip by the army patrols, hole up in caves by day and dig for emeralds through the night with the help of masked flashlights. The army itself is not immune to emerald fever. Says Willis Bronkie, one of Bogota's biggest and most successful emerald dealers...
...Council gave it the kid-glove treatment, remembering last year's debacle. Armed with the report of a special committee that had been studying calendar change and with a series of new arguments, the council looked for a while as if it would once again give calendar change its seal of approval...
...Guards during the Cultural Revolution, has in past months been under oblique attack in the Chinese press. Last month the Peking Review carried an ostensibly historical essay on a 3rd century B.C. Prime Minister who wavered in the class struggle against the aristocracy and was "asked to return the seal of his office because of illness...