Word: model
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot chocolate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...
...illusory, ephemeral phenomenon; understanding is possible only where the illusion of love is absent. The characteristically expressive acting typical of Bergman's more or less regular troupe serves to illustrate the theme. Miss Andresson's versatile transformation from the tomboy of A Lesson in Love to the model in Dreams is particularly noteworthy, and Miss Dahlbeck exhibits control like very few actresses around...
Still, the varsity is not conceding, and it shouldn't be. Although the Crimson has hardly been a model of consistency itself. It can be encouraged by the erratic quality of Quaker performances. In each of its two wins this fall, Penn has tallied 36 points: in all of its three losses, it has been shut...
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan set the ball rolling. After politely inspecting mines, factories, and "model" Black townships, he made his celebrated "winds of change" speech to an astounded White Parliament in Cape Town. He made it clear that Great Britain could no longer remain silent about apartheid, and condemned it vigorously...
...Gogh is above all interested in the lessons that his uncle's turbulent and eventually resolved quest for identity can offer us. Vincent's constant search for the right job in his early days, he feels, provides a model of determination to succeed at self-discovery. In Vincent's eventual turn to art, he remarks that his uncle suddenly found a way of applying all that he had learned to a process of giving, not taking. This use of knowledge he considers an essential step in gaining maturity...