Word: mauro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...league scoring table. Princeton's Yun Fishman tops the list...For his play against Dartmouth two weeks ago, Coogan was named an Ivy Star of the Week by Ivy Sports Magazine.... Senior halfback Mike Mogollon, limited in recent games by a nagging ankle injury, plays more and more like Mauro Keller-Sarmiento in every match...
...again and again in his evaluation of himself. It shows up in his high visibility and gregariousness, contrasted with the way he values "quiet times, small groups of people, intimate conversations," and the Cafe Pamplona. He admits the need for "moderating influences," of which his mother, and longtime roommate Mauro Keller Sarmiento are the most prominent. He is a person who has the confidence and courage to take untold business risks, but is somewhat leery of being by himself. He will room with Crane next year at least partly because "I could never live in New York alone...