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...modern man and futuristic equipment approach the once unthinkable 20-ft. pole vault, the 30-ft. long jump, the 60-ft. triple jump and the 2-hr. marathon, the benchmark most likely to fall in Seoul is the 8-ft. high jump. Sweden's Patrik Sjoberg and West Germany's Carlo Thranhardt shared a world record of 7 ft. 11 1/4 in. until last week, when Cuba's Javier Sotomayor soared 7 ft. 11 1/2 in. in Spain. At least three other jumpers, West German Dietmar Mogenburg and Soviets Igor Paklin and Gennadi Avdeyenko, are potential Olympic eight-footers. Sotomayor...
...enigmatic Sjoberg seems to have the best chance. A born rebel who took to smoking at six and shoplifting as a teenager, the reigning world champion is known for his flashy sports cars, below-shoulder-length blond hair and stormy relationship with his coach. "I have no education, no profession. Now it is time for me to look after my future and make provision for it," he says. Sjoberg calls the 8-ft. barrier his next goal "because it is such a big thing in the United States," where appearance fees run high on the indoor circuit...
Because it is basically a psychological study, August Stindbergh's play Miss Julie would seem to be uniquely suited to the talents of the Scandinavian film-makers. Yet the adaptation written and directed by Alf Sjoberg and filmed in 1952 is still rather disappointing. The weaknesses of the picture, however, lie in the original play...
Miss Julie chronicles the descent of the last member of a degenerate noble family into the open arms of the ambitious and amoral family coachman. Today, 67 years after the play was first produced, the social implications of such a liaison have lost much of their urgency. Sjoberg realized that and emphasized Strindbergh's nearly Freudian character study. Unfortunately, he did not quite succeed--Julie still remains, if not actually dull, at least somewhat remote...
Anita Bjorg, playing the title role, deserves much of the credit for keeping Miss Julie from becoming the complete bore that it might have been. She and director Sjoberg have conceived Miss Julie as a character balanced on the edge of madness. Bjork's performance is particularly impressive in those moments when the balances seems to be lost altogether...