Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seventh Seal...
Despite the success of his comedy, Bergman didn't dally long in the realms of the humorous. In "The Seventh Seal," which was made after "Smiles of a Summer Night," Bergman turns fuly to the exploration of despair. In this medieval allegory, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), a Knight, returns with his squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to Sweden after ten years in the Crusades. Death, played inndibly by Bengt Ekerot, comes to take the Knight, but the Knight, Seeking to win a respite, challenges Death to a game of chess. The Knight and Jons travel the contryside, which is ravaged...
...film almsot seems to play itself out in a medieval present. At first there is a temptation to mock the seriousness of the film and the self-importance of the Knight's quest, which at times appears like a remnant of 1950s existentialist philosophy; but the images in "The Seventh Seal" are so hypnotically charged that one is pulled in and held fast...
...Seventh Sense, a discussion group that hasbeen defunct since the middle of the fall term,has been revived and reformed by Suthankar andNicole Armenta '95. Armenta says that since RUSchanged its format, she and Sukthankar thought itwas important to resurrect the Seventh sense andto make it a more structured, more focused groupthan it used...
...take more radical position and youdon't have to feel guilty," says Sukthankar."Seventh Sense will cater more to needs to womenwho choose to come" rather than to the needs ofall women, as RUS tries to do, she says...