Word: domenico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title pays Kazantzakis' respects to another dark and stormy Greek, born, like himself, on the island of Crete: Domenico Teoto-copulo, better known as the artist El Greco...
Smeared all over the Italian press was a series of "re-examinations," to which readers responded with enthusiastic letters. "He was shy, notwithstanding all his arrogance," wrote ex-Editor Mario Missiroli, of the weekly Epoca. Concluded Domenico Bartoli, of Milan's Corriere della Sera: "His intuition in evaluating the weakness of his adversaries was penetrating and exact." Paolo Rossi, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, went further. "One must admit," said he, "that Mussolini's conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work...
Marriage-Italian Style. Pathetically, the dying Filomena lifts her eyes to Domenico, the prosperous pastry merchant she has adored and been kept by for 20 years. "Do you love this woman?" asks an old priest. "You know about us," the merchant shrugs. Someone throws a pillow at his feet, he finds himself kneeling at her bedside, and at death's door they are joined in wedlock. Moments later, Domenico glances at his watch, tiptoes away to phone the nubile cashier he will marry when Filomena dies. Behind him suddenly the curtains are swept aside, and there stands Filomena blooming...
...story, based on a popular Italian play, relishes every step of a slut's progress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed. At 17, driven by wartime necessity, Filomena meets Domenico on the job. In her 20s, he sets her up in a little flat. In her 30s, he takes her home to care for his invalid mother. In her 40s, Filomena is running his business and his house, and Domenico at 50 is still running around...
...Roman Empire, and after a look-see at the nonaligned nations' conference in Cairo, he could hardly wait to get a line on Rome itself. There he wined a lovely Gina Lollobrigida, 35, at lunch, and she, in turn, dined and danced with him to the Volare of Domenico Modugno at a cool little do she threw for 70 friends and countrymen. She even took him to a private showing of her latest flick, Woman of Straw, and her company to Sukarno, as the legions of paparazzi recorded, was clearly a triumph of imperialism...