Word: clara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grey-working-class suburb of Milan. A Brief Vacation is the temporary escape illness provides for Clara (Florinda Balkan) from the crushing situation in which she is trapped. While her husband recovers from an industrial accident. Clara must support him, their two small children, his senile mother, and his shiftless brother. On her feet all day holding an acetylenc torch in a metals plant. Clara spends the rest of her time running the household. If she doesn't change a sick child's bandage or decide whether the dinner eggplant should be sliced or diced it doesn't get done...
...Clara, however, this stereotype is her whole life. Ordinarily, resigned self-abnegation directs all her energies towards her family: she even brings home to her husband the lone slice of meat she receives for lunch at the factory. But when the strain of exhaustion and isolation becomes too powerful. Clara explodes into directionless rage and paroxysms of tears, set off by such poignant frustrations as her family's failure to set her alarm clock, making her late for work. No trace of individuality graces this stark portrait of women's oppression, so that while the helplessness and despair of Clara...
EVENTUALLY, CLARA COLLAPSES at work; the doctor diagnoses incipient T.B. and prescribes six months at a government sanitorium in the mountains. In a prise de conscience precipitated by her husband's violent jealousy and his insistence that she sleep with him despite her illness, Clara realizes that if she doesn't look after her needs no one else will and goes off to the mountains in the face of her family's adamant disapproval. The sanitorium itself is a welfare state Magic Mountain, set in Alpine grandeur that enables De Sica to display the saccharine cinematography that made his Garden...
...complete the process of regaining her humanity. Clara falls in love at first sight with a graceful young man. Luigi (Daniel Quenaud), whose cardboard sensitivity and self-indulgent acting make him an ersatz Prince Charming. This love affair is brief and passionate, but unconsummated for the spell is abruptly broken by Clara's cure, which inexorably returns her to obligations at home. As the train hurtling southward nears Milan, the skies darken with thunderclouds, gracelessly symbolizing the descent from ethereal realms of sweetness and light into the quotidian agonies of proletarian life...
...Felde, with a third in the 200 low hurdles. Diana Gilligan with a third in the high jump. Pam Hooper with a third in the long jump and a second in the 220. Valerie Taylor with a second in the shotput, Cindy Young with a third in the discus, Clara Tatrallyay with a second in the high jump. Roxanne Sismandis with a third in the 880. Janet Campbell with a second in the mile. Michelle Holmes with a third in the 440, and Linda Martin with a third...