Word: campagna
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...second feature, "Rapture," is a foreign imitation of the American psychological drama. Its chief failing is that it combines a rather naive brand of soap-opera psychology with a very poor dramatic situation. Filmed in the Campagna region outside of Rome, the plot leans heavily on the "rapture" of Roman ruins in the moonlight and pays little attention to its main theme--the romance and disillusionment of a young girl and a sculptor. Nearly every emotional sequence in the film is hackneyed and bears the imperfections of what it plagarized from American melodrama...
...Story. On the high reaches of the marble cliffs that separate the towns on the Marina River from rural Campagna live two brothers who have abandoned worldly affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then...
Lawyers in U.S. Judge John C. Knox's court had sung the praises of Willie and George well. It had taken considerable temerity, they pointed out, to testify against such Chicago mobsters as Louis ("The Man to See") Campagna, Frank ("The Immune") Maritote and Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe. This was convincing to Judge Knox, who freed Willie three years and George two years before they would normally be released for good behavior. Their prison behavior, incidentally, had been magnificent. Said Willie's lawyer: "He has the garbage cans at Sandstone shining as they never shined before...
...bevy of deep-bosomed young women in the striped skirts and handkerchief headdresses of the peasants of the Roman Campagna broke through the guards, nearly mobbed the Dictator. All their noses were carefully powdered and some had lacquered finger nails. II Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house...
...Laval suggests that if only Great Britain will recall her fleet from the Mediterranean and leave her children, Gilbraltar, Malta, and Egypt, to be watched over by the eye of heaven alone, Mussolini will stop cringing from fear and beat his swords into plowshares for use on the Roman Campagna...