Word: bicker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with Italy is that no one seems to be in charge. While the politicians bicker, the Italian bureaucracy -numbering 1,790,000-does most of the governing, but does it badly. Incredibly, the bureaucrats have managed not to spend $15 billion voted by Parliament for public improvements; some of these funds were actually approved ten years ago. Half of that money is for building roads, schools, hospitals and housing-which would also provide work for the unemployed...
...have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second act. This time the company attempts Man's rites of passage, and as the actors become engrossed in their story, they mellow into cooperation and exit smiling...