Word: lire
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...born Hollywood moviemaker (Gregory Ratoff) out of a turbulent French romance (Alexandre Dumas pere's Memoirs of a Physician) about a swaggering 18th Century charlatan (the so-called Count Cagliostro). The film was made entirely in Italy at a cost of $2,000,000 (more than a billion lire). Hollywood...
...bulbous eyes, which go right on revolving in the dark like a couple of off-center marbles. Basking more or less uncomfortably in Welles's reflected flamboyance is a cast of thousands, headed by Nancy Guild, Valentina Cortesa, Akim Tamiroff and Stephen Bekassy, and draped in 70 million lire worth of costumes. As a brutal assertion of quantity over quality Black Magic exerts a kind of hypnotic fascination; otherwise it is chiefly remarkable as a triumph of matter over mind...
...combine of Genoese financiers forked over 100 million lire down-payment for a nine-year gambling concession, agreed to build a casino and put up a 100-room hotel...
...Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...
...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...