Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that this tale of a betrothed couple too poor to marry, and now separated because the man is transferred to a plant in Sicily, comes to signify anything. There is no sense of allegory about it. Not than any grand or ennobling passions are aroused or displayed. Giovanni and Liliana simply grow gradually, through their letters and their loneliness, to know and need each other as they had not before. No, their romance assumes the magnitude it does because of the elegance with which it is depicted...
...hard to imagine how Olmi could have simplified his exposition. There cannot be more than a hundred lines in the film's hour and a quarter. A few shots of Carlo Cabrini's and Ann Canzi's faces define their relations. Short flash-backs played off against Giovanni's activities in Sicily tell the rest...
...Vatican observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate-other appointments were not. Some of Paul's red hats went to men who govern ancient European sees that have come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland. It was also predictable that Paul would offer...
...Giovanni Battista Tiepolo wanted people to look up to his art. He painted his most famous work on ceilings. Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs. His specialty, naturally, was clouds, and his best work adorns sundry ceilings from Madrid's royal palace to Wurzburg's bishop's Residenz. Last week Tiepolo unexpectedly raised the roofs in London...
...elect one of their own, the Christian Democrats had to unite behind a single candidate. A party caucus gave the nod to Lawyer Giovanni Leone, but many Christian Democratic Deputies refused to be bound by the decision. Indeed, ex-Premier Amintore Fanfani finally captured more than 100 of the 399 Christian Democratic votes available but withdrew after the eleventh ballot because of the combined pressure of the Vatican and his party chiefs. Fanfani was feared because he is shrewd, inventive (he created the "opening to the left" regime that still rules Italy) and unpredictable...