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...concrete level, the plot introduces Mauro Ponticelli (Michael Piccoli), and his sister Marta (Anouk Aimee). The former is a magistrate, the latter a lunatic. At first the separation is quite clear. Save for the disturbances created by his sister. Ponticelli is almost fanatically calm, all that a middle-aged magistrate should be. Aimee's Marta, by contrast, seems in each well-groomed motion to bristle with exposed nerve-endings...
...cries, how can I laugh?" muses Mauro. "After her menopause, maybe." The brother's and sister's confrontations are at once amusing and pathetic in their pettiness. In one scene, as Mauro types. Marta in the kitchen drums her fingers to the rhythm of the keys. Little by little her motions become agitated, then furious, as she takes a slab of frozen beef and hammers it against the counter in senseless anger...
Mauro does not remain impervious. "If only the insane would keep quiet," he sighs, repeatedly overhearing the muffled curses that stream through Marta's door. Doors and locks soon emerge as a motif--Mauro is endlessly closing doors, turning the key in the four locks of his front door, inspecting the locks on telephones. The physical boundaries manifest his compulsion to separate all that is sane from the insane, the acceptable from the shocking, and the inside from the outside...
State Senator George Bachrach won a second term in the Middlesex and Suffolk district--which includes western Cambridge, Watertown. Brighton and Belmont--pulling 34,279 votes, or 70 percent. Republican Marta Batmasian got 11.045, or 22 percent...
...pulled off a stunning victory two years ago, re-entered the Democratic party this year and handily beat three challengers. But, taking the lessons of his own campaign two years ago to heart, he is not letting his guard down for the November election because he faces Republican businesswoman Marta Batmasian...