Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silvana Mangano plays an earthy young lady who sings up to cultivate rice for a 40-day period. She falls in with a particularly unscrupulous jewel thief and his current moll. In the course of the film she steals a hot diamond necklace from the moll, muscles out the mill, and finally commits suicide in a highly spectacular manner...
...Bitter Rice" is a strange combination of modern realism and old-fashioned melodrama. When the jewel thief is shot by his former mill, he doesn't just die--he dies with his wrist caught on a meat hook. Some parts of the film have been out for the benefit of Boston audience's delicate tummies. The most notable and unforgivable of the outs is an episode showing the collapse of a pregnant woman during a rainstorm in the paddies...
...boost its steel production, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. last week announced a $90 million expansion of its East Chicago (Ind.) mill. With 75 new coke ovens and a new 1,400-ton blast furnace, the new plant will raise Youngstown's steel ingot capacity by 20%, its pig iron capacity by 15%. When the new ovens are finished, Youngstown will move from sixth place among the steelmakers into a tie with fifth-place National Steel Corp. (capacity of each: 5,200,000 tons...
Betterment projects-roads, schools, housing developments, steel mills-are begun and never completed. At Zenica, slated to be the Pittsburgh of Yugoslavia, you see it spelled out. Peasants undertaking to become skilled workers wander back to the land. Youth brigades are digging foundations for a rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just...
...were still being imported, but in diminishing number and quality. Best of a thin lot was Alberto Moravia's Two Adolescents, two fine, perfectly turned long stories about difficult boyhood. Worthy but dull, at least in translation, was Riccardo Bacchelli's ambitious, much-praised historical novel, The Mill...