Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People forget that B.U. is one of the best teams in the country," Crimson coach Bill Cleary said after Monday night's disappointing performance at the Garden. "We outplayed them in the first period, but after that we just stopped skating, and they were all over us," he added...
...took even less courage to make his latest movie, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a film about the repression of Italian Jews prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Although a fine study in nostalgia, its import lies rather in having created an elegant and moving recapitulation of this shameful episode in Italy's history--thirty years too late. Painful though it may be for a man like De Sica to shoulder the burden of his country's guilt in making such an apology, the balance against sentimental but ineffective nostalgia is only preserved by the counter...
...people comes swooping by in the opening shot, that De Sica is dealing here with the upper-classes, not the population of Rome's slums. Upon the invitation of the Jewish-aristocrat Finzi-Continis, they are on their way to play tennis on the courts in the family's garden. As they pedal through the gates they leave the real world behind. True to the De Sica tradition, the action for the most part takes place apart from developments like war outside the smaller universe of human emotions the director builds for his story. The tennis players, most of them...
IGNORING the Milanese playboy, Micol lavishes her attentions on Giorgio. As they stroll together through the garden, they people the woods and fields with remembrances of things past; glimpses of the two as children show Giorgio even then a shy admirer of the "private pupil" Micol, while she plays the seductress in their game of communication through glances. A sudden downpour dispells the sunshine of their memories, and taking refuge in an old carriage, their mode of contact threatens to become physical. But Giorgio is too slow in making this transition from childhood innocence. Paralyzed by the enticing new light...
Egged on by the majority of B.U. partisans among the 15,000 fans packing the Garden, the Terriers came out flying on their first shift, but Harvard settled down and dominated the first ten minutes of play...