Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Darcy Pulliam (as Emilia) has an especially well-reigned sense of the power of servants in Shakespearean plays. With much of Iago's ability for skillful management of others (but with none of his strange twist of heart) she soothes Desdemona and chaperones her to bed with the kind of understated stage-presence that suggests a well-concealed understanding of how her mistress is to be handled. And Marie Kohler's Desdemona is more dutifully opposed than passively resigned to Othello's creeping suspicion--a refreshing variation on the usually-wilting Desdemona...
...afraid to go to sleep, and she wakes up every time the bed moves. Her eyes get huge, and she quivers and shakes. Sometimes she walks in her sleep." Los Angeles Housewife Emilia Harwood was describing her daughter Charisse, 8, the victim of a new ailment that in the past three weeks has hit both adults and children in Southern California: earthquake jitters. The psychological damage is widespread and has affected thousands; psychotherapists have had to treat at least 500 parents and children in hastily arranged free group sessions. Although some victims recover rapidly, others are expected to suffer...
...building their showcase, the Communists skillfully capitalized on the region's natural advantages. Emilia-Romagna has long been Italy's richest agricultural region. For the past 20 years, it has led the nation in industrial growth; thanks to an influx of new plants and fat payrolls, the per capita income in Bologna (more than $1,600 a year) is rising at a rate of better than 9% a year. Businessmen find that it is one place where they can count on local Communist politicians to keep obstreperous left-wing labor unions in line...
...south always find a party representative on hand at the railroad station or bus depot to point the way to a job, to housing or to party-run community centers with cut-rate bars and restaurants. Many of Italy's beaches are open sewers, but in Rimini, on Emilia-Romagna's Adriatic coast, swimmers enjoy waters kept clean by modern antipollution equipment...
...promote their avidly sought democratic image, the Communists of Emilia-Romagna not only twit their comrades in other countries, they go out of their way to downplay their own presence. Although more than 400,000 of Italy's 1,492,000 card-carrying party members live in the region, President Fanti scoffs at Christian Democratic fears that the Reds intend to build a Moscow-style monolithic state. All the Communists want, he says soothingly, is a society "which is pluralistic, in which no ideology or faith would have an exclusive or privileged position...