Word: momento
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be credited to them that the performances are almost uniformly good. DeFrench and Greely Curtis are convincingly miserable in All That Fall, and William Driver and Hope Christopoulos do right by Cockney accents in A Smell of Burning. Stanley Jay gives the best performance of the evening in Momento Mori, playing an old man with a fine stooped shrillness...
...reporter for the newspaper O Momento in the provincial capital of Goiania (pop. 55,430), Haroldo Gurgel, 22, knew that he had made some powerful political enemies. When he left his hotel one morning last week, four gunmen jumped him, dragged him to the city's central square. There, before a crowd of horror-stricken townspeople, they pushed Gurgel against a wall, pistol-whipped him half-unconscious, then pumped twelve bullets into him as he tried to crawl away. Two men who tried to help him were wounded. After that, the murderers calmly pocketed their pistols and strolled away...
...hard to find the immediate provocation for the brutal murder. The day before, O Momento had published a story by Reporter Gurgel aimed at Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, governor of the state of Goiaz and the newspaper's prime political enemy. It charged that Pedro Arantes, whom the governor had appointed head of the Electric Energy Commission, was running the state's drastic power rationing to suit himself. The paper printed its attack under the headline HE CAME AND PRODUCED LIGHT. Soon after the story appeared, Arantes met the reporter on the street, slapped him across the face...