Word: franco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli has breathed new life into Shakespeare's bawdy comedy with a brash and breezy style and lusty performances from Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor...
...Basques no longer want any part of Euzkadi, which existed as a separate republic only for a few months at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. They would, however, like to regain the local fueros (privileges) that were taken away from them by the Franco government for having fought on the wrong side of the civil war. Under the fueros, traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that...
Since last year's press law was passed, some publications have ventured bold criticism of the Franco regime. The regime, in turn, has reacted with fitful ambivalence, lenient in one case, stern in another. Sometimes it has done nothing. Leniency means that a representative of the Information Ministry politely informs an offending editor that he is endangering his access to government-subsidized newsprint...
Critic Goldberg may have a point. Africa Addio is a lengthy rape scene in which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...