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...convent. Soon Gian Paolo and the priest, Don Arrigoni (Hardy Kruger), are enjoying the favors of novices, nuns and the prioress. In the denouement the nun of Monza, for her sins, is sealed alive in a dungeon. So was the incident at Monza until the Archbishop of Milan-now Pope Paul VI-helped unlock 347-year-old church records in 1957 to reveal the scandal. Perhaps the fate was too harsh for the lady-or for her chronicles-but it is the kind that this dubbed and sluggish adaptation deserves...
...Attempts at interpretation invariably fail, explaining one-aspect of the story at the expense of some equally important part, Calling The Tempest a comedy, though it is humorous in parts, ignores the gripping with which Prospero works out his revenge against his brother Antonio, who usurped the dukedom of Milan from Prospero...
When the former coalition members failed to agree on how to regroup. Rumor and his Christian Democrats were left operating a minority one-party, or monocolore, government. After a terrorist bomb killed 16 people in a Milan bank last December, Rumor decided that it was time to share responsibility with a few other parties. What he thought would be a simple bit of Cabinetmaking, however, turned into an exercise in frustration...
...Rome, 1,500,000 persons-half of the capital's population-had been stricken, including Premier Mariano Rumor. In Milan, the disease affected one person in three, including 1,000 streetcar drivers and 330 policemen. City halls and law courts closed down, and pharmacies rationed medicines. In Turin, a third of the municipal employees were absent, and so was the city's entire squadra mobile, the elite police squad normally called out in emergencies. Two-thirds of the 1,000 residents of the tiny Tyrrhenian island of Ventotene were ill, including the only doctor...
...most countries friendly to the United States, the initial horror and revulsion over news of the My Lai massacre had by last week turned to more quiet dismay and introspection. Editorial and public response, while not forgiving, was philosophical. Typical was Milan's Corriere delta Sera, which sadly noted: "Every country on the old continent has a fine collection of skeletons in the cupboard...