Word: dino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-films ever made in Italy is Director Dino Risi's study of a raffish Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) who jet-propels a shy young law student (Jean Louis Trintignant) into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death...
...that point, The Easy Life is one of the funniest pictures ever made in Italy-a picaresque podge of Don Quixote and La Dolce Vita, a Tom Jones with jetaway. Gassman is superbly absurd as a sex bomb stuffed with ravioli, and Director Dino Risi faultlessly paces and spaces the fun and games. In its whole intention, however, The Easy Life is clearly more tragic than comic. The party is over before the picture is over. The spectator lifts the last glass of champagne to his lips and finds it full of blood: the blood of a decent, bewildered...
...Pope and Curia alone, or whether the college of bishops shares in this authority, and if so to what extent. Council progressives believed, as one American theologian put it, that "this council was called to abolish papolatry." But to council conservatives, collegiality means a sharp loss of power. Archbishop Dino Staffa, an official of the Roman Curia, contended that "supreme power over the entire flock of the faithful was entrusted to Peter and Peter alone." The implication is that such power was also entrusted to the Curia, which is responsible to the Pope and not to the bishops...
...last straw. On May 25, while Pope John XXIII was dying, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities issued an instruction that would require Catholic universities to get clearance from Rome before awarding honorary degrees. The author of the decree is believed to be Archbishop Dino Staffa, who is the chief assistant to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, the congregation's conservative prefect...
Married. Claudia Martin, 19, starlet daughter of Singer Dean Martin; and Gavin Murrell, 23, would-be cinemactor; in a surprise elopement that, said Mrs. Martin, left Daddy Dino livid ("You couldn't print what he said when he heard the news"); in Las Vegas...