Word: dino
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...pastorale, from the André Gide novel, in 1946; the following decade, his precise dramas became the butt of young turks like Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard who formed France's New Wave. Back when the international audience got much of its fun, sex and sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna / Scent of a Woman, remade in Hollywood with Al Pacino...
...sales of machinery and other capital goods to places like China, Russia and the Middle East. In the last few days, companies ranging from motor manufacturer Deutz to Koenig & Bauer, which makes printing machines, have cut sales projections and warned about weak orders. "It's a double whammy," says Dino Sola, a finance professor at the University of Monaco. "First the credit crunch gets out of control and then, when we get our act together, we realize that we are in the midst of a recession that is potentially deep and long-lasting...
Many of his more than 50 films depicted the rebirth of Italy in the wake of World War II, a theme that director Dino Risi explored with nuance, carefully balancing tragedy and humor. With his breakout film, 1962's Il Sorpasso, about the unlikely friendship between a law student and a gregarious con artist, Risi became one of Italy's most accomplished directors, earning two Oscar nominations for 1974's Profumo di Donna, the tale of a blind war veteran able to distinguish women by their perfume. It was remade in 1992 as Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino...
...dino unveiled...
...Everyone wants this bird," he says, trying to convince me the $8,500 sticker price is a steal. Wang also shows me pictures of a $1,500 dog-sized dino (uncanny resemblance to the pet dino in The Flintsones) and a $25,000 unidentified feathered dinosaur...