Word: maddalena
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...make his fortune. After a while he came home and married an Italian girl. They settled in southern France, on the Italian border near Menton, where he grubbed out a living tending fruit trees and gardens. Nine years ago Benedetto's wife Maddalena had a stillborn child, and a year later the nervous shock led to a disease that paralyzed her legs and attacked her liver...
...care for her Benedetto went hungry and in rags. In the hospital Maddalena grew worse, and wrenching spasms of pain made her scream again and again "Ammazzatemi! [Kill...
...whitewashed wall of the little Church of Santa Croce was a list of 36 names crudely lettered in tar and labeled: "These are the spies of Orgosolo." The names were those of Orgosolo villagers from all walks of life. They even included that of Liandru's own wife, Maddalena, who married him at the little church in 1947, after living with him for nine years...
Fairy Tales & a Bullet. But the code of omertà is not repealed with a bandit's capture. The Liandru band still lurked in the mountains, and the list still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree...
...better "Rigoletto" could be arranged. Tito Gobbi, in the title role, is likely to make a lasting impression on the spectator. In both his sound and his fury, he is a thrill to hear and see. All of the other parts are well done; notably Anna Maria Canali as Maddalena and Marcella Govini as Gilda. I feared for a while that Miss Govini was a follower of the still-flourishing Jeanette MacDonald School of Cinema Singers--those unique actresses who manage somehow to sing through their teeth (or porcelain caps, as the case may be) and whose little tummies...