Word: ladri
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Italians have always joked darkly about government officials as ladri, or robbers, but the return to crisis government this year after a season of stability has touched off questions of confidence about the nation's leadership. Some, like De Benedetti, are still hopeful that Italy will find a way out of its current malaise. "Don't forget," he says, "that Italians bring out their best at times of uncertainty and difficulty." But Pansa is not so sure. "People have grown weary of the political parties, of their talk," he says. "We're simply tired. Italy has changed...
...story, written by Novelist Alberto Moravia, is a cheerful bit of babble, a tolerant spoof of the great game of guardie e ladri (cops and robbers), which many Italians play with a good-natured gusto all their lives. Sophia, the daughter of a prominent pickpocket (Vittorio De Sica), conies hippety-hipping up to a taxi one day with a couple of boy friends. They ask the driver (Roberto Mastroianni) to head for the beach. On the way, Sophia keeps breathing down the cabby's neck and crooning Bongo Bongo Bongo in his ear. At the beach he waits while...
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