Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaving everyone uninvolved, The Silence degenerates into a game, a sophisticated version of hide-and-go-seek. Because the experience is the opposite of. aesthetic, Bergman's talents seem much better after leaving the theatre. Once settled in his favorite coffee shop, the new critic will have fun exploring the film's cornucopian symbolism. Two sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindbloom), and Anna's little boy, Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), interrupt their railroad trip in a strange country where a strange language is spoken, because of Ester's strange coughing fits. They rent a room in a hotel with...
...priests, who seek to exorcise the demons, represent the Polish communists, at once dogmatic and anti-humanistic. In her greatest moment, Mother Joan screams at the priest that she likes her demons; that she will not be made just like thousands of others, who pray to gods all together, who eat their beans every day. This is precisely the plea of Poland, afraid that it is being engulfed by the faceless hordes of the East. Poles frequently identify the mass nature of the Russian Orthodox Church with the mass nature of Soviet communism...
...Sammy Clicks and Harry Bogens (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) first appeared in novels, the socio-economic climate was troubled, and heels were regarded as products of "the system," whose hardboiled inhumanity they reflected and whose boils they were. But a healthier social order, not needing to seek someone to blame, absolves the heel of ultra-contemptibility and sees him as merely ultracompetitive. This dates Sammy more destructively than its period-piece spoofing and cigar-chomping producers. One cannot do Once in a Lifetime thrice in a lifetime...
Communists in the United States do not want the violent overthrow of the government, said Dan Rubin, editor of Communist Viewpoint, last night. He said that they seek to establish "socialism" peacefully...
...Polish prosecutor Wednesday revealed the state's plans to seek a stiffer penalty against Andrew Field, a Harvard graduate student, then the suspended eight month sentence be received for allegedly assaulting a Polish border guard...