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...foremost masterpieces in modern Scandinavian design are still those of the familiar masters, among them Aalto, Wirkkala, Denmark's Arne Jacobsen, and Sweden's Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius. But there are also many new names to reassure us that the tradition need not regress to mannerist neodeco or yield to the common denominator of market-researched commercialism. Scandinavian design, in fact, is still as vigorous at the end of this century as it was at the beginning...
Danny, a fiery cellist with wild red hair, played soccer like a fiend and took young girls for midnight riders on his Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...
This is the Depression as a dream - no breadlines, no sitdown strikes, no Dust Bowl. Cannery Row is visibly a movie set, splendidly designed by Rich ard MacDonald and photographed by Sven Nykvist a subtle shade away from the realistic. The burns and hookers who inhabit it are seen as sweet dreamers whose great preoccupation is bringing together Doc (Nick Nolte), a sometime baseball pitcher, and Suzy (Debra Winger), a reluctant "floozy" who talks tough but is as lost in fantasy as everyone else...
...Currier defense--guided by Tom Reeves and Sven Gramnerstorf--gave a stellar performance, stymieing the Leverett offense throughout the game...
...issue is so certain to rile the normally subdued Swedes as taxes. With reason. The average Swedish worker must turn over about half of his earnings to finance the cradle-to-grave welfare society, and for the self-employed the tax bite frequently exceeds 85% of income. Historian Sven Stolpe was so disgusted by his tax assessment that he threatened to burn all his unpublished manuscripts. An actor even set himself ablaze last March outside Stockholm's tax office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic...