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Ingmar Bergman used to say, "I make each film as if it were my last." The ( astringent passion he poured into his metaphysical melodramas -- The Seventh Seal, Persona, Autumn Sonata and many others -- testifies to that truth. So no one thought Bergman was kidding when in 1983 he declared that After the Rehearsal would be his last film. He was 65, a good age for a parson or a burgher to retire, and he had always been a most reliably productive artist: in the winter doing his job directing plays at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, in the summer making...
...rumors that Bush, then Ronald Reagan's running mate, tried to cut a deal with Iran and delay the release of the 52 American hostages so that Republicans could take credit for their freedom. The panel, however, will continue to investigate whether other Reagan aides conspired with Tehran to seal Jimmy Carter's defeat with a so-called October Surprise...
...work, virtue and abundance that fed and freed most other Americans for pursuits beyond the farm. Plows of mounting complexity and size were hooked behind teams of oxen and horses and then to crude steam engines. In 1894 Nebraskan Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, decreed that the great seal of the Department of Agriculture would no longer have a shock of wheat in the center; it would have a shock of corn -- and a plow...
Junior Matt Mallgrave netted two third-periodgoals to send the Dutchmen packing and seal thevictory
...fashion has always been a more urgent mistress, especially when fashion comes cheap. The 19th century ushered in an era of cheap coal delivered by train. According to Orchard Professor of History in Landscape Development John Stilgoe, this inexpensive fuel and inventions such as tar paper, which could seal out the wind, led Americans away from energy-conserving design practices...