Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starts off solidly enough. Robert Traven (Jack Lemmon) is an American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
...only problem for Robert is that Antonio has been writing letters in Robert's name to his ex-girlfriend for the past forty years. These letters paint an incredibly heroic portrait of the mild-mannered American, a portrait that not only grossly exceeds his present stature, but mocks his past life of underachievement. Admidst the idolatry of Antonio's friends and family, Traven feels all the more insignificant...
When Baker wants to relax from the problems of world finance and politics, he likes to go home to his ranch near San Antonio and go hunting. Says a former Treasury official: "He shoots turkeys, and that takes patience and good stalking." The biggest game Baker now has to bag is the budget deficit...
...vote, down from 37% in elections two years ago. Principal reason for the drop: voter unhappiness with a tough new austerity program. The biggest surprise was the 18% of the vote won by the Democratic Renewal Party, founded only four months ago by supporters of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes, 50. He is expected to take over party leadership when his term ends next year...
Santiago, who struggled in the Crimson's first two games, hit stride against the Tribe Saturday, with a 98-yd. outing. The San Antonio, Tex. native scored on a 78-yd. scamper on the game's second play against the Big Red a year ago and finished up the contest with 168 yards, his second best effort ever...