Word: angelical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angel Face. That strategy has previously served Agnelli with remarkable success. As president of Fiat France from 1965 to 1970, he doubled the firm's auto sales in that country. Later, as president of Fiat International, he made Italy's bestselling car the most popular import throughout the rest of Western Europe, started building Fiat factories in Argentina and Poland, and launched an energetic sales campaign in the U.S. Since 1970, the number of Fiats sold in the American market has doubled, to nearly 60,000 last year. For the first eleven months of 1972, Fiat...
...better represented in the group and that Italian industry in general establish better relations with workers. "La scossa Agnelli" (the Agnelli shock), Italian newspapers called the proposal. After a number of such scosse, the press came up with a nickname for mild-looking Umberto: "The mastiff with the angel face." At present Umberto is aiming many of his barks in the direction of France's Citroen, with which Fiat has been engaged in a joint venture since 1968. Irked because the French firm has resisted his efforts to integrate the two companies more closely, Agnelli threatens to dissolve...
Later Bertolucci spent two weeks getting acquainted with Brando in Hollywood. His verdict: "An angel as a man and a monster as an actor. He is all instinct, but at the same time he is a complex man: on one side he needs to be loved by all; on another he is a machine incessantly producing charm; on still another he has the wisdom of an Indian sage. He is like one of those figures of the painter Francis Bacon who show on their faces all that is happening in their guts-he has the same devastated plasticity." (Two Bacon...
...near Brando in Tetiaroa in 1970, says: "I don't believe anybody really knows Brando, but I have the feeling that he believes somewhere along the line he missed something he could have done, something he could have been. It's as if somebody had put an angel inside of him, and he's aware of it, and it's more than he can contain...
SATURDAY: The Blue Angel. 1930 German classic with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jennings. CH. 2. 8 p.m. B.W. 2 hrs. The Apartment. Jack Lemmon '47 in Billy Wilder's 1960 bittersweet comedy about corporate executive morals. Nominated for 10 Oscars, won 4. Lemmon's best...