Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last, Italian newspapers were beginning to direct their nose for news toward a malodorous situation: the bad records of the Communists in the Chamber of Deputies. A onetime resistance hero named Edgardo Sogno began it with his Pace e Libertá campaign (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Rome's influential II Tempo took up the history of bald and boisterous Vincenzo Moscatelli, a Communist Deputy and member of the party's Central Committee. In 1932 Comrade Moscatelli was caught by Mussolini's police and sentenced to 16 years in prison; that gave him a certain claim...
...were poor, the profits were good, since films offered Japanese an escape from their nation's ruins. New theaters were built and old ones renovated, and Japan now has nearly 4,000 moviehouses v. 1,100 in 1946. The occupation also brought a raft of U.S., French and Italian movies, gave Japanese producers their first look at new and modern techniques...
...films, but soon after was taken off the purge list. Nagata studied foreign imports to find out what gave them their appeal, then applied what he could to his own products. For Japanese audiences, he decided, the romance of French movies would not do, nor would the sexiness of Italian films. "Unfortunately," says Nagata, "we don't have the bosoms, and even if we did, the kimono would hide them." Nagata's formula: a typically Oriental story, plus clever camera work. Rashomon, which has so far grossed $310,000 in the U.S., was the first result; Ugetsu...
...horse and killed. By the time the boys are freed by Grandma's own death, one is too crushed to stand up to life, the other is beginning to show that he has inherited some of Grandma's tyranny. Both are attracted to the same lusty Italian opera singer, and when she bears a child, neither brother knows which is the father, and the girl can't tell. Bit by bit, they withdraw to a life of bitterness, become the butts of neighborhood hoodlums, booby-trap the house and retire to an existence of unwashed queerness. When...
...mobile." She urged that bigamy be legalized "as at the end of the Thirty Years' war." But the war did not last 30 years. After performing the last rites at the Führer's funeral pyre in beaten Berlin, Bormann disappeared. His wife died in the Italian Alps a year later. For all their anti-Christian indoctrination, seven of their children have become Roman Catholics. The eldest, Hitler's godson, is training to become a priest...