Word: seals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evil. Most notable is Efron's sturdy but tainted Proctor whose one mistake returns to undo him during the witch trials months after his crime. The utter insanity of the proceedings culminates with a confession, the only legitimate one lodged in the court in months, and it proves to seal his fate. Meanwhile the perjury of others not only protects them but esteems them in the eyes of the court. Efron's simmering outrage underlines the impotent justice of Judge Danforth (Richard Gardner...
First, the history: last April's administering of the MCAT in Somerville was delayed for more than two hours because a thunderstorm caused a campus-wide black-out--which occurred literally two seconds before the already-nervous pre-meds opened the seal of their first section...
...stonewalled since February 1993, inspectors were finally allowed back to seven sites at the North's Yongbyon nuclear complex. Nothing unusual was found at six of the sites, but at the seventh, where plutonium for bombs can be extracted from nuclear-fuel rods, the team discovered that an IAEA seal on an area containing a "glove box" for handling radioactive material was broken -- a janitor's mistake, claimed North Korea. But the inspectors were not permitted to take samples from the "glove box" that would reveal any recent handling of the North's plutonium stocks. They saw no evidence...
...plot synopsis in the notes for the retrospective concludes with the sentence, "Film ends as Jof, Mia and their child walk off towards a new day." That is as cliched a sentence as one can find, but the ending of "The Seventh Seal" is far from cliched. Just as the ending of "Smiles of a Summer Night" was in many rspects a false ending belied by the content of the film, the optimistic ending of "The Seventh Seal" is ironical. Mia and Jof walking into the sunrise cannot erase the previous images; Death will come for them...
...anyone uncaquainted with Bergman's work, "Smiles of a Summer Night" and, "The Seventh Seal" make excellent introductions. For those already familiar with Bergmar, the retrospective at the Harvard Film Arc provides an opportunity to rediscer Bergman's greatness. The retrospective continues with "Wild Strawberris," Persona," "Cries and Whispers" and "Fanny and Alexander...