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...does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them down at his daughter-in-law's house and had the effrontery to praise her cooking effusively, to Rosa's mortification. After some mutual Neapolitan hysterics, the pair heals this terrible rift...
...playgoers dearly cherish a theatrical hypo, and Broadway desperately needed an Equus. Almost as desperately as did Richard III. Why has this boy done this horrendous thing? The structure of the play is like that of a trial in which the witness and culprit, Alan Strang (Peter Firth), is coaxed, tricked and thundered at by a prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels...
...days before the jump, Knievel appeared at the launch site to pose for pictures. When someone asked him to smile, Knievel responded by snarling "I don't smile unless I want to. Who asked me to smile?" Singling out NBC Cameraman Jim Watt as the culprit, Knievel sprang at him and beat him to the ground with his $22,000 gold-and-dia-mond-headed walking stick. A crowd of bikers, kept behind a chain-link fence, roared their approval, and moments later stomped on a U.P.I, reporter and ground out a cigarette butt on his forehead. Enraged...
...known mainly as a promising heir to the tough, taut Hammett-Chandler tradition. But suddenly he glimpsed the comic potential of tossing the sand of petty frustrations and human fallibility into the well-oiled machinery of the thriller. Nonviolent, Runyonesque crooks could become the victims, and everyday life the culprit. Getaway cars could stall, crucial phone numbers could slip the mind, a paralyzing snowstorm could fall on the day of a planned bank heist...
...leaders" in their province of "suppressing and dividing" the citizens. Without giving details, they alluded to clashes in which four were killed, many wounded and scores arrested. One poster named Hua Kuo-feng, the Communist Party boss of Hunan and a member of China's Politburo, as the culprit. Seldom in the current campaign have wall posters dared to attack top-level officials by name. Only a few hours after that poster went up, it was ripped down. This sequence of events has led veteran China watchers to conclude that the radicals still have powerful opposition from the moderates...