Word: ciao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gotta eat. By the way, I'm off to Iran next week, so if you want a carpet just let me know ... And what about you? You've really decided not to go back to work? Well, everybody's gotta do their own thing ... ciao!" and she's gone. Shaken, the mother walks into the kitchen and drops her baby in the trash...
Even by Italian standards, the intensity tends to get out of hand, particularly in the otherwise compelling performance of Giancarlo Giannini as the son. Scarcely a ciao can be spoken without a soulful stare, a strangled sob or an eloquently twitching nose. The cool restraint of Catherine Deneuve, which on other occasions can seem maddeningly vacuous, here supplies a welcome relief. She is a fetching brunette in this film. Playing Giannini's sister, she floats through all the gnashing and weeping with a fragile and captivating serenity...
...Southern California, where sales have taken off like a supersonic skateboard since restrictive laws were eased last January, Vespa of America expects to sell 10,000 of its Italian-made Ciao two-wheelers in 1976. The oldest and cheapest moped is the Velosolex ($300), made by Motobecane of France, which has 500 U.S. dealers. More than 17,000 of the peppy, eye-catching Austrian-made Puch models have been sold since February...
WEDNESDAY: Theater in America. A repeat of Genevieve Bujold and Stacy Keach's performances in Jean Anouilh's "Antigone." CH.2. 8:30 p.m. Color. 90 min. Ciao...
...unofficial mayor of Rome's Via Veneto is Lionel Stander, a growling, grimacing, profane old lion with the plumage of a peacock and the unabashed appetites of a goat. As he fanfaronades along, groups of young Roman cognoscenti crowd round him and cry "Ciao, Lionello!" As he gleefully claims, "Some of the best-looking broads in Rome call me and ask 'Can I come sleep with you, baby...