Word: lira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greek Folk Songs and Dances (Royal Greek Festival Co.; Esoteric). Odd and unexpected rhythms, exotic harmonies, haunting melodic patterns and some rarely recorded instruments, e.g., lira (viol), santir (dulcimer), wooden spoons, go into one of the most interesting and unusual albums of the year...
Gina is, furthermore, a reluctant girl with a lira. She lives plainly in a small apartment in an unfashionable district with her business-manager husband, a 34-year-old Yugoslav physician named Mirko Skofic (rhymes with so rich), who is now so busy with Gina's career that he has had to give up his medical practice...
...Lana, turned brunette for the occasion, is synthetic Italian, so is the movie. Filmed in Naples, it deals with such elemental matters as poverty, sex and jealousy, but Flame is no more earthy than a surburban child patting mud pies. The plot has Lana, down to her last lira, befriended by a true-blue simpleton (Bonar Colleano), who promptly falls in love with her. Moving into his apartment, Lana falls in love, instead, with his roommate. Singer Carlos Thompson, who looks remarkably like TV's Ventriloquist Paul Winchell and acts with all the intensity of one of Winchell...
...addressed to a British officer in 1944, which called for Allied bombing of Rome as "the only way to break the moral resistance of the Roman people." De Gasperi pronounced the letter a forgery, directed his lawyers to sue for libel. The amount asked in damages was only 1 lira (about one-sixth of a cent); it was vindication that De Gasperi wanted...
...trial's third day, Guareschi did not show up in court. In his absence, the judge found him guilty, ordered him to pay De Gasperi 1 lira in damages, $480 as a fine and court costs, and sentenced Guareschi to a year in jail. Said Don Camillo's creator: "I will not appeal. I will take up the knapsack with which the Nazi SS sent me to a German concentration camp, and will go to prison...