Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau proposed an implied bargain: France would grant IRBM bases if the U.S. would back France in Algeria and support French ambitions to join Britain and the U.S. as NATO's third nuclear power. In Rome the semiofficial news agency Italia reported that "the Italian government does not consider granting of missile bases to NATO a necessary consequence of the international responsibilities Italy has already assumed...
...rare mention of her erstwhile great and good friend, full-bloomed (49) Cinemactress Anna (Wild Is the Wind) Magnani updated her views of Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, in passing struck a blow for all who are weary of Don Juans in headlines. Simmered Anna: "He could still be a great director if he did not let himself be enveloped in family questions. It's a most depressing and boring story. It's about time for the papers to stop publishing so much gossip about Roberto and Ingrid...
...Dusenberg (original price: $19,000), lives alone in a bungalow that looks like a highbrow junk pile. Some items: five aquariums for tropical fish, antique Oriental sculpture, a reed organ, a library on Mayan architecture. There, looking like an outsize Dylan Thomas, he delights in cooking dinners (Creole, French, Italian, Scandinavian or Oriental) for as many as 35 guests...
...sniff out Mussolini footage. Associate Producer Isaac (Ike) Kleinerman. who helped put together Victory at Sea at NBC, went to Rome last April. He found a trove of early footage in Italian archives, but government officials refused to let any of it out of the country. Instead, he dug valuable old clips out of French newsreel files. And, like the bluebird of happiness, the best footage he had seen in Rome turned up in copies back in Manhattan, where a search unearthed a Fascist documentary shot in the late '205 with a script by Benito Mussolini himself...
...LIGHT FOR FOOLS, by Natalia Ginzburg. A brief, near-poetic story of ordinary lives mired in the despair of Mussolini's Italy. Conceived in sympathy and written at the level of simple truth, it is one of the best Italian novels in years...