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Administrators have also begun to show zero tolerance for things students merely say or write. Call it subzero tolerance. Last spring Antonius Brown, 18, wrote a story in his journal about a deranged student who goes on a rampage at Brown's high school, Therrell, in Atlanta. It's a sick story. Eventually officials heard about it and suspended him for 20 days. But Brown happened to return from that suspension on April 20, the day of the Columbine massacre. He was expelled two days later in the fearful atmosphere of the moment. Police charged him with making terrorist threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Effect | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...Mina el Muttawahad (Mina the Hermit), who spent years in the desert, then ruled the church until 1971 as Pope Kyrillos VI. He reformed the monasteries through renewed austerity and discipline. The second was Kyrillos' successor, Antonius as Suriani, who currently heads the church as Pope Shenouda lII. Before becoming a monk, Pope Shenouda was once a lay teacher in the Coptic Sunday school movement, another church development that inspired renewed interest in monasticism. Even now Pope Shenouda retires each week to a mud-stuccoed hut in the des ert for a day or more of meditation and prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Desert Revival | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...plays Joseph K.'s lawyer; he is not outstanding. The best performances in the picture are turned in by Romy Schneider and especially Akim Tamiroff. Miss Schneider portrays Leni, the lawyer's nurse who is attracted to accused men, with the right mixture of naivete and depravity. Tamiroff, as Antonius Bloch, an accused tradesman, is letter-perfect; he seems to be the only member of the cast who has fully comprehended his role...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Welles Returns With 'The Trial' | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...Antonius Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Seventh Seal | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

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