Word: midday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every summer manufacturers make it easier and more seductive for a man to go down to the sea and beach again. Some of their newest lures to a life in the midday...
Having established the innocence of his angel (Stefania Sandrelli), Germi first thrusts her into an earthy peasant farce. One midday siesta she is seduced and becomes pregnant. Her father, played with inexhaustible bravura by Saro Urzi, consults a lawyer cousin, explaining that the doctor has brought up a little problem about Agnese. "Tumor?" asks the cousin. "Honor," growls Don Vincenzo. He sends his only son Antonio to murder the seducer, assured that the boy's punishment will be no more than three to seven years in prison, provided he can prove that he killed "in a blind rage...
...then that most of the real damage occurred. Until about midday the youths ransacked the mansion breaking all but six of its 1640 windows, swung from chandeliers, and shot at milk bottles with an air rifle...
...Diem prepared to take his lunch, and so did the rest of Saigon. Shutters fell over store windows and the lovely tree-lined boulevards were suddenly choked with hordes of motor bikes, pedicabs, and buzzing little Renault taxis hauling people home for two hours of escape from the stupefying midday heat...
...shortest vacation period in Europe. The U.S. does not always provide a model for others to imitate. The Italians, for example, steadfastly oppose an American eight-hour work day; they complain that it would give them only an hour or so for lunch instead of the traditional three-hour midday siesta at home and, more important, would cut into the overtime they often pile up by staying at work until 8 or 9 in the evening. When the Italian government tried to institute a day with no siesta break, the employees' union blocked the plan by arguing that...