Word: lorenzo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALBUQUERQUE. N.M.--Lorenzo Charles' shot with one second remaining culminated North Carolina St.'s dream season Monday night, giving the Wolfpack a 54-52 victory over top-ranked Houston for the NCAA basketball championship...
...bright blue night pierced through by a multitude of lights, all giving off an unreal glow, is reminscent of other films that focus on three kings and a manger. The scene, however, is not Bethlehem but Tuscany, and the night is August 10, the night of San Lorenzo, when according to folklore, every shooting star grants a wish. A feminine voice intones solemnly and langorously. "What I wish tonight is to find words to tell of another night, many years ago. "So, in classic folk style, The Night of the Shooting Stars emerges at something recounted, an admixture of remembered...
...4077th M*A*S*H we raise our martini glasses one last time (ingredients: plenty f gin and a toast to Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth...
...villagers of San Martino, the feast of San Lorenzo is the night when wishes come true. This night, Aug. 10, 1944, there is much to wish for and little hope of satisfaction. The German army is in retreat, dragging its dead across northern Italy. Gangs of Blackshirts, faithful to their Duce, are sweeping the countryside with kamikaze ferocity. The American G.I.s, tough-guy redeemers, may arrive tomorrow or never. So a score of the villagers leave San Martino to escape the carnage-and find what? What these ordinary people find in themselves surprises them: the fierce, fulfilling strength of solidarity...
Like the beneficent San Lorenzo, the Tavianis grant each villager's wish by making no formal distinctions between reality and fable. Every one of Cinematographer Franco di Giacomo's images has the same cartoon clarity whether it documents the townspeople's journey or dramatizes their sweetest, saddest fantasies. A girl bumps into some soldiers and sees them as G.I.s, come to take her to America; in fact they are Germans about to slaughter her, and her vision is a dream flash the moment before she dies. Early in the film, the villagers hear a faint but rousing...