Word: locarno
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...even as Obama spoke in the Locarno Room, a grand, gilded space in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that was designed at the height of Britain's colonial powers, plans were afoot to challenge a stage-managed G-20 consensus. Demonstrators took to the streets, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent out invitations to their own joint London press conference, to signal their determination to resist any Anglo-American pressure for additional fiscal stimulus and to highlight their demands for stricter financial regulation. They are not the only G-20 leaders to arrive in London...
...Locarno International Film Festival, Aug. 6-16 Founded over 60 years ago, this festival in the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno is one of the oldest. Thanks to a penchant for the work of auteurs, it has earned a reputation for spotting greatness early on - past audiences were watching films by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee long before anyone knew who they were. But the real draw is what might be the world's most beautiful screening room: the Piazza Grande. Every evening, a massive screen is set up in the Renaissance square and thousands gather to watch...
...light on the complexity of international relations in the burgeoning EU. Schmid’s early work is also some of the most idiosyncratic material in the series, though it is equally critically-acclaimed. His 1988 film “23” received a Special Mention at the Locarno Film Festival, and picked up several German Film Awards to boot. The film, about a the attempts of a West German computer hacker to connect with the KGB in East Berlin and to decipher a global conspiracy, will screen on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 p.m. Those who prefer Schmid?...
...woman who fall in love despite religious differences." As she puts it, "Nothing brings out the poignancy of love more than when it's pitted against the ruthlessness of war." Sen has clearly struck a chord: the movie won a Junior Jury prize for best director at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, and the script earned her a Netpac Jury prize for "courage in raising an issue of relevance in a work of cinematic density...
Fasulo took off at 5:15 p.m. from Locarno Airport heading to Linate Airport on the outskirts of Milan. Nearly 30 minutes later he radioed the Linate tower saying that he had minor landing gear problems and asked for clearance as he approached from the north. But he ignored subsequent directions from the tower to circle near the airstrip and suddenly turned westward toward downtown. Moments later his altitude dropped suddenly and the plane pierced the building in a perfectly horizontal position, according to witnesses. The day after the crash, one of Fasulo's two sons was quoted...