Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Il Barbiere di Siviglia...
Colombo, who is credited with executing the plans charted by Bank of Italy Governor Guido Carli for il Boom, also drew up legislation to get the country moving again after a slowdown caused by a wave of strikes. He moved to improve conditions in overcrowded universities and secondary schools. Two weeks ago, he won trade union backing for additional bills improving housing and medical care...
...Fellini Satyricon, an American journalist named Eileen Lanouette Hughes strives for Rossian statement, and fails quite obviously. Hughes, a Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...
Ethiopia paid a high price for Il Duce's Caesarean pretensions. By the time British troops crushed the Italian invaders in 1941, 760,000 Ethiopians had been killed. Even so, Selassie ordered his people to treat the defeated Italians with "a sense of honor and a human heart...
...Organization. Italian troops stole the obelisk from the ancient Ethiopian capital at Aksum, and Mussolini had it set up in Rome. Ethiopians want it back, but the Italians have maintained that the shaft is too weak to be moved. Moreover, neo-Fascist extremists would probably raise a ruckus if Il Duce's trophy were taken away...