Word: chiara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died in Paris, attended by his longtime love Catherine Deneuve and their daughter Chiara. But Marcello Mastroianni's compatriots would not let the actor known as "the face of Italy" pass into memory without a poetic farewell. So just after sunset on the day he succumbed, at 72, to pancreatic cancer, his wife Flora stood with the mayor of Rome and 500 other mourners at the Trevi Fountain, into whose waters Anita Ekberg had lured Mastroianni in the famous scene from Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Now the lights faded, the water from the Neptune statue stopped...
...Dark Eyes (1987), the gentle padrone besotted by a dwarf in the Argentine I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993), his finest late role. He worked with ambitious auteurs from Altman to Zurlini; he lent his bankability to obscure projects. In his last year he starred with Chiara in Three Lives and Only One Death, an elaborate jape by the Paris-based Chilean Raul Ruiz, and appeared with fellow icon Jeanne Moreau in a sweet vignette--a poignant farewell kiss--in Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds...
...survived by five children: John L. Loeb Jr. '52, Arthur L. Loeb '54, Judith Loeb Chiara, Ann Loeb Bronsman and Deborah Loeb Brice...
...research was done on rats that had been injected intravenously with a small dose of nicotine, about as much as a smoker receives from a single drag on a cigarette. The team, led by Gaetano di Chiara, a neuroscientist at the University of Cagliari, then monitored the biochemical changes that occurred in the nucleus accumbens, an area of the brain that appears to control the process of addiction...
...this important? A virtually identical pattern of biochemical activity, Di Chiara's group had earlier established, accompanies injections of cocaine, amphetamines and morphine. The brain, in other words, appears to make no distinction between addictive drugs and what smokers prefer to think of as just a bad habit...