Word: berlusconis
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Best film ever? Maybe. But beyond the epiphanies of film form and camera work, Kane offers an acute view of American politics that applies today as much as it did then. Like Silvio Berlusconi and Michael Bloomberg, Kane (Welles) is a media magnate who runs for office. Like Mark Foley, he is caught in a sexual scandal just before the election. The brilliant script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles is about a powerful man's need to be loved by the millions of people whose lives he dominates. And when they jilt him, he rationalizes the rejection by spinning...
...backed a deeply unpopular Bush policy: refusing to criticize Israel's strategy or tactics in Lebanon or call for an immediate cease-fire. Blair's transformation today into official lame duck means all the European leaders who backed the Iraq war - Spain's Jose Maria Aznar, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and Poland's Leszek Miller - have paid the ultimate political price...
...amend or suppress inheritance taxes broke out last week in both Britain and France. In Italy, meanwhile, there's controversy and skepticism about plans by the new government[an error occurred while processing this directive] of Romano Prodi to reinstate the inheritance tax abolished by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in one of his first acts on taking office in 2001. The debate is erupting now because death duties of up to 40%, once paid only by the affluent, are starting to affect a growing number of middle-class Europeans - and will likely hit millions more in the decade...
...While Beppe was being a Good Samaritan, Severgnini would observe the scene and offer congratulations. Beppe would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains why so many Italians voted for him. But it's not pro or against Berlusconi - it explains how much of Italy was in Berlusconi." That is to say, Berlusconi...
...Italian soccer has long been a magnet for fascist nostalgia of the far right, and festivities following its triumph were marred by Swastikas spray-painted on the walls of Rome's historic Jewish quarter, as well as a comment by a former minister in the previous government of Silvio Berlusconi that Italy had triumphed over a team of "negroes, communists and Moslems...