Word: giulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-tied Milanese cheered up half a dozen curtain calls for leading Soprano Maria Callas and Bernstein, leaned into the orchestra pit to compliment the musicians, and filed out into the plush lobby gesticulating to each other like conductors. The" critics chimed in. Bernstein, wrote top Critic Giulio Confalonieri, is "absolutely predestined to music." Milan's eminent Corriere della Sera called him "indisputably brilliant." One of few sour notes came from an elderly admirer: "He's an American...
...character analysis. The hero, Harry Lucas, is a footloose English writer in Florence, inwardly reliving the wartime days when he worked with the Italian partisans. His most haunting memory : a tug of war between love and loyalty, in which he turned in his girl Nina to the partisan chief Giulio because she was a German agent. The wound is reopened and history re-enacted when Florence is threatened with a Communist coup led by Giulio. But this time it is a ravaged and vengeful Nina who betrays Harry to Giulio. What happens when Giulio is murdered and Harry faces Nina...
Thousands of Romans had worked as extras during the filming in 1950, and although a good many came mainly to see themselves and their friends on the screen ("Look, there's Uncle Giulio!" cried one), most stayed and enjoyed the picture...
...movie renaissance by building Cinecitta and granting state subsidies. But he also dictated the propaganda trash which was the industry's main prewar product. After liberation, Italy's democratic government resumed the subsidies. But Italy's able young film boss, Under Secretary of State Giulio Andreotti, 33, onetime journalist and underground fighter, wisely kept hands off the product. Result: such imaginative directors as Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica had free play...
Vatican City unfurled its gold and white state banners in celebration of Pope Pius Xd's 75th birthday and the twelfth anniversary of his election to the papacy. After the day's work was over, there was a family visit with his three nephews, Carlo, Marcantonio and Giulio Pacelli...