Word: botties
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Strange Twinkle." Ostilio and Santina are Christian Democrats. The village mayor, councillors and all the other officials are Communists. They decided to get rid of Ostilio and Santina. A few weeks ago the Communists brought from Modena the official party photographer, Mario Botti. He set up his camera in the room adjoining the registrar's office, drilled a hole through the wall, pierced the portrait so that the camera lens peered through Garibaldi...
After three days of waiting, Photographer Botti got what he had been told to get, or so he said. A click of the camera caused Ostilio to look up. He noticed what he later described as "a strange twinkle in Garibaldi's eye." Ostilio and Santina rushed into the next room, as the photographer and two town councillors fled...
...compromising photographs, the bookkeepers maintained, could only be a clever photomontage. Photographer Botti told the police he had been hired by Mayor Gialdi, paid 4,000 lire, plus expenses, by a town councillor. Said he: "Professional secrecy prohibits me from describing the pictures of the love scenes." Mayor Gialdi said that two of the shots were "definitely compromising...