Word: capua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh from Rachel, Rachel and stale from lack of motivation, Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward career through the movie looking for an opportunity to display their talents. They have to struggle with a plot as full of gimmicks as a garage. Race Driver Frank Capua (Newman) meets aging Avis girl (Woodward). She tries harder; he marries her. Alas, Capua suffers from autoeroticism. Night after night' he stays at the speedway, revving up his car instead of his wife. One morning he comes home to find her in the arms of another driver (Robert Wagner...
...Capua's race relations deteriorate. The compulsive winner becomes a perpetual loser-until the day of the big one, the Indy 500. Director James Goldstone even manages to make a wreck of the most celebrated American auto race. Progress is as circular and unsurprising as the movement of a minute hand; the script is reminiscent of a radio play, with an announcer booming: "It's a different Frank Capua out there today!" When the film casts a sociological eye, it is toward such riddled targets as baton-twirling teeny-boppers and accident-hungry spectators...
They were attributes prized by his contemporaries. Prince Ferdinand of Capua, for instance, made Crivelli a knight, and in his later years Crivelli proudly signed his paintings with his Latin title "Miles." But essentially, he was a loner. Though he had lived in Venice, he spent most of his life in the hilly region called The Marches on the Adriatic. There he worked alone, perfecting a style that has intrigued and puzzled critics ever since...
Spartacus, hailed by Plutarch as a man "in understanding and gentleness superior to his condition," was the leader of a band of 78 slaves who in the year 73 B.C. escaped from a training school for gladiators at Capua, 130 miles south of Rome. Eluding the Roman garrison, the gladiators stole weapons, pillaged estates, and freed thousands of slaves (who then made up four-fifths of the population of Rome). After two years of revolt, during which he defeated nine armies sent against him by the Roman Senate, Spartacus commanded a force of 90,000, cavalry and foot. Emboldened...