Word: milan
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Jail Terms. Among the victims of the purge were Theoretician Milan Hübl Kosík, who helped plan the reform program of the Prague Spring; Journalist Jiří Hochman, an editor of what was once a crusading magazine, Reportér; Party Historian Karel Kaplan; and Chess Player Ludek Pachman, an international grand master. Rudolf Slansky Jr. and Jan Sling, sons of the Communist leaders who were executed as "Titoist traitors" after show trials in 1952, were also arrested and then released...
...Jewish laws." Their mood is carefree, nevertheless, and is echoed by that of their hosts, the blond ice-maiden Micol (Dominique Sanda), and her sickly brother Alberto (Helmut Berger). Among their guests are Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), a childhood friend, and Malnate (Fabio Testi), a gentile visitor from Milan. Wrinkling her nose at Malnate's Fascist predilection for the workers of Ferrara, Micol returns his appraising once-over with "you're too much the industrious Lombard--besides, you're too hairy." Next to Malnate's animality, De Sica's aristocratic Jews are the ultimate wish-fulfillments to any Hitlerian dream...
...Waldo Salt's chaotic script turns Breslin's characters, which were already caricatures, into vicious racial stereotypes. Everyone is either venal, murderous, retarded or deformed; and since they are almost all Italians, one might be tempted to conclude that everyone whose ancestors were born between Sicily and Milan is a feeble-minded racketeer...
Labor unrest has become endemic in Italy. Last week's strikers included tens of thousands of workers in Milan, 50,000 civil servants and some cinema actors and customs inspectors. Even the employees of the Treasury Ministry walked out for two days, creating confusion at the meetings of the Group of Ten and leaving only one Xerox machine in operation for all delegations...
...crazy hicks. That fellow Dillinger-why, he had about a quarter in his pocket when he got knocked off." When the Kefauver subcommittee cracked down on racketeers, Adonis was convicted in 1951 for gambling, served two years, then was convicted for perjury and chose deportation. He lived in Milan until four months ago, when an Italian court declared him "dangerous" and banished him to the tiny Adriatic village of Serra de' Conti...