Word: castel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charge on Wheels. Samperi's protagonist is a lunatic adolescent named Alvise (Lou Castel), who spends most of his time scooting about in a motorized wheelchair. Alvise, the doctors tell his father, shows no positive physical symptoms. Still, his parents airily dismiss the suggestion that the paralysis could be psychosomatic and leave on a business trip, entrusting Alvise to the care of his Aunt Lea (Lisa Gastoni). Zia Lea, a lithe beauty with raven hair and a creamy complexion, is vaguely dissatisfied with her lover of 15 years (Gabriele Ferzetti) and begins to take a more than consanguine interest...
...daily against imprudence, rebellion, disobedience and the dangers of heresy. Last week he cautioned Catholics against tampering with "indispensable structures of the church" and partaking in intercommunion services with Protestants. "A spirit of corrosive criticism has become fashionable in certain sectors of Catholic life," he told an audience at Castel Gandolfo last September in a typical peroration. "Some want to go beyond what the solemn assemblies of the church have authorized, envisaging not only reforms but upheavals, which they think they themselves can authorize and which they consider all the more clever the less they are faithful to tradition. Where...
Submerged in Documents. Although he knew that it would be criticized, Pope Paul was clearly unprepared for the gale of protest aroused by the encyclical. In a mid-week audience at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence, Paul told an audience of pilgrims something of the personal agony that had accompanied his decision. "Never before," he said, "have we felt the load of our duty. We have studied, read, discussed as much as we could. And we have also prayed a lot. How many times have we had the impression of being almost submerged by this heap of documents? How many...
...real point and power of Fists. Bellocchio, who wrote his own script, may have personally identified with Alessandro's rampage, but he keeps his distance; the film has the detached quality of a series of animated tableaux. The actors however perform with great competence-especially Lou Castel as the matri-fratricide, Paola Pitagora as his sister, and Ciliana Gerace as the mother. The tableaux are often visually stunning, in the best tradition of Italian neorealism: the ennui and self-contempt of family meals at which the cat steals food from the blind mother's plate, the seedy despair...
...Pope Paul VI, 69, with a cold, intestinal cramps, nausea and intermittent fever that brought him back from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and caused him to cancel all appointments; Nellie Connolly, 47, wife of Texas' Democratic Governor, recuperating in Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute after removal of a benign, olive-size growth on her jaw; General Earle G. Wheeler, 59, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from a "minor" heart attack that was disclosed by the Pentagon after two days of denials that he suffered from...