Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolic scenes are generally purely so, with no link to existence within the major plot. Action and dialogue on the surface tend to seem pedantic, existing for thematic purpose alone and turning the film into a nihilist morality play. When Mauro has to interrogate Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young...
...breakthrough came in 1975, when Ingmar Bergman produced a charming The Magic Flute that began in a replica of Stockholm's 18th century Drottningholm Court Theater and from time to time moved beyond the confines of the stage. Even more ambitious was Joseph Losey's mesmeric Don Giovanni (1979), expansively set amid the Palladian splendors of northern Italy...
...Italian people have reacted with a fury never before seen in such cases. At the funeral in the Basilica of San Domenico in Palermo, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolon and his cabinet were heckled and abused by an angry crowd impartent with the government's seemingly ineffectual stand against violence. The long-over-due response came from Rome almost immediately. The President of the Republic promulgated a law granting broad powers of investigation to a newly created office of high commissioner against organized crime. The acts allows for a variety of lactics, including phone taps, extensive examination of personal bank records...
Political crisis is as familiar to Italians as pasta, as regular as a strike, but the latest parliamentary high-wire act in Rome had even seasoned observers worried. His fragile five-party coalition government riven by infighting over economic policy, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had to try twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare...
...Giovanni G. Fazio, a lecturer on Astronomy who worked with Hoffman at Harvard, says that Hoffman was "very energetic" in his desire to find sources of certain cosmic rays The balloon experiments, he adds, were designed to lift instruments above those levels of the atmosphere that could interfere with the "search for radiation from celestial objects...