Word: il
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...openly accused De Gaulle of "usurpation" and of asking the nation to "legalize his coups d'etat." Economic Planner Etienne Hirsch blasted De Gaulle by asking if the man who wanted to be the "supreme guide" of France had "forgotten how this translates into Italian, Spanish or German"-il Duce, el Caudillo, der Fűhrer. Opposition posters quoted the words of the late Premier Georges Clemenceau: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable...
...Eternal City was growing weary of the eternal triangle. "This vamp who destroys families and shucks husbands like a praying mantis," said Rome's Il Tempo, should be tossed out of Italy as an "undesirable." But Elizabeth Taylor, 30, and Richard Burton, 36, only went as far as a fishing village on the Tyrrhenian coast...
...IL DUCE (367 pp.)-Christopher Hibbert-Little Brown...
Sophia Loren's absence from last week's Academy Award ceremonies was unvarnished nervousness. The Hollywood correspondent of Rome's Il Messaggero had written a convincing argument that the "xenophobes" of Hollywood were not about to ''dig their graves with their own hands" by honoring furriners. Sophia canceled her plane reservations at the last moment, feeling too overwrought to fly halfway round the world to play the gracious loser...
Last month Maria Scicolone was married to Romano Mussolini, son of Il Duce and now a jazz pianist. "Since Maria has been married in white in church and in the eye of the world, my happiness is nearly complete as a mother." says Romilda. "But never as long as I live will I overcome my hate for Scicolone. Now he comes around trying to be friendly, but we don't want him, and my vendetta was nearly complete when Maria refused to let him come to her wedding. That is poetic justice." Nonetheless, when he comes around, Romilda still...