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Besides being available at the Salvation Army and vintage shops, the boho style is easily found in such low-cost stores as H&M, the Swedish chain that has 78 U.S. outlets. Its fall collection looks as though it were pulled from a closet in Big Sur, circa 1972. "We've imported a lot of items with accents of leather and suede, rustic wool and tweed from Eastern Europe and northern Canada," says Jennifer Uglialoro, H&M's U.S. spokeswoman. Also among the fall offerings are romantic blouses, heavy knits and feathered earrings for girls and vintage-inspired T shirts...
...movie version of Earl Derr Biggers' Confucian detective stories had something to offend everyone. Played by the Swedish actor Warner Oland (16 films), then by Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had a black man (the gifted Mantan Moreland) for comic relief. Yet there's a pinchpenny gusto and some nifty plot twists to these Monogram studio marvels...
...first few minutes of Saraband, certain viewers will slip instantly into the world of Ingmar Bergman. The immediate clue is the presence of two familiar actors, Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, stalwarts of the Swedish writer-director's informal repertory troupe. Here they are revisiting the roles they played in the 1972 Scenes from a Marriage, to which the new work is not so much a sequel as a descendant. There are also echoes of a dozen or more of Bergman's despairing, exhilarating films. The old themes nudge you: death, and those who aspire to it; love...
...Ingmar Bergman's new film Saraband will stir recollections in viewers who are Marianne's age--or maybe Johan's--since the two characters and the same actors appeared three decades ago in Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. But to the majority of 'plex patrons, it is the Swedish filmmaker who is the forgotten...
...matter were purely American, accusations would not have been directed at Syria, which has helped save Americans from possible death. Indeed, there would have been at least one accusation against Israel in terms of its own long history of terrorism. In 1948 Israel assassinated Count [Folke] Bernadotte, a Swedish citizen authorized by the U.N. to help reach a peaceful solution in Palestine. Israel committed a hijacking in 1954, seizing a Syrian civilian plane. Also in 1954 Israel engaged in subversive acts in Egypt, in the so-called Lavon scandal. [A reference to Israeli attacks on Western targets in Egypt...