Word: mias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Productions Inc. in New York State's Supreme Court, charging a grievous breach of contract. On a 600-sq.-ft. billboard facing south over Manhattan's Times Square, Sophia Loren's name appears in illuminated letters that could be read from an incoming liner, but-Mamma mia!-that name is below Charlton Heston...
...with the sheriff-with Johnson's life and her own body as the stakes. Minnie takes that game by slipping some cards from her stocking, saves Johnson a second time by flourishing a pistol at the molasses-witted miners, marches off with Dick, singing at the curtain, "Addio, mia dolce terra, / Addio mia California...
...from "a big-brother machine that is all-seeing, all-knowing, all-watching." Another Benson worry: the tendency to forget that a computer's judgment is no better than the information that has been fed into it. Says he: "If a statement comes from a computer-Mamma mia, it's like coming from...
...passive throughout the picture, largely unconscious of the awful fate that is overtaking him. He therefore puts up no moral struggle against his fate, and without struggle there is no drama. Many spectators will be inclined to agree with the character who remarks in the concluding scene: "Mamma mia, what a disgusting mess...
...granddaughter of two Methodist ministers). She talks about "the Omnipotent" as naturally as if he were her neighbor. "I never go onstage," says Leontyne, "without saying a prayer-sometimes an extra prayer before arias like D'amor sull'ali rosee in Trovatore or O patria mia in Aïda." And the debut? "I just stood there in the wings and thought: 'Dear Jesus, you got me into this...