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...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...
...century composers out of date. Mozart's ability to portray real emotions on the stage instead of stylized attitudes, and his inventive use of the orchestra as an active participant instead of merely an accompanist, powerfully influenced later generations of composers. In the works he created with Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte-The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte-Mozart's genius transcended the conventional boundaries of master-servant comedies and lovers' farces to create a new kind of psychological music drama...
...Lorenzo A. Littles, a spokesman for the Harvard Black Law Students Association, said yesterday that studies have shown the test is not biased. Littles said he could not comment on the benefits of the changes until they have been implemented...