Word: betrayals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe that they may be close to unraveling the once tight Red Brigades terrorist network...
With no solid clues to go on, the authorities were hoping to break the case by enticing one of the terrorists to betray his comrades and earn a 2 billion lire ($1.67 million) reward for information about the kidnaping. The money is believed to have been put up either by wealthy Italian industrialists, who fear that terrorism is eroding business confidence, or anonymously by the Italian government...
...there. From the moment the young Napoleon appears on the screen in a snowball fight at military school, his face displays an extraordinary intensity. Childish only in body, he is a being apart from those around him, probably since birth. The pride and disdain in his eyes betray a spirit that will not so much mature as it will expand...
...generations under restrictive laws and incarceration during World War II, because of intense commitment to "the honor of the family." Italian Americans, though similarly family-centered, have done less well, he says, because the abler members of each generation were taught that upward mobility would estrange them from-even betray-the rest of the family. Some of these group traits sound like pernicious stereotypes, especially his portrayal of blacks. Writes Sowell: "With little incentive to work any more than necessary to escape punishment, slaves developed foot-dragging, work-evading patterns that were to remain as a cultural legacy long after...
...comic, terrifying and erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the picture might have rated an X). But the animation is crude when it is not pretentious; the score, heavily laden with rock music, is positively bellicose; and the truncated tales told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen by people with something more potent than popcorn coursing through their veins. But even as a trip movie it cannot be compared to such classics as 2001 and Fantasia...