Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor, in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...categories: those who take their clues from the materials they are working and the others who start with an image, then shape materials to embody their vision. The richly decorative materials-first approach is handsomely demonstrated in one whole red-walled gallery at the museum's show. There Italian-born Harry Bertoia's Wall Piece ($750) melds steel, bronze and phosphor into an elegant decoration. Bertoia makes no claim for it beyond stating he considers it "a few squares arranged in a quiet way around a stand." His Flower ($900) proves he can do a welded screen...
...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...move has been made to change Italian law in line with the ringing declaration of the 1956 congress. And that congress recommended dropping the word "leper" because of its incrustation of moral connotations, substituting "leprosy victim" or "leprosy patient." But Italian officialdom has changed in neither word nor deed: Marcello Orano, hero of 1941, is in 1959 nothing but a leper...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff...