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...main interaction we see is between Beckett and Miller. In one eerie, powerful scene between the two, Andrew Beckett becomes absorbed with Maria Callas' rendition of the aria "La Mamma Morta" from the opera Andrea Chenier, reciting the lyrics and dancing with his I.V. stand. It is in this scene that Andrew tries to convey the totality of his experience to Miller. Andrew is crying at the end. Miller tries to hold back his tears, and leaves the apartment, but then wants to go back--he almost knocks again on the door, then draws away...
...that means "Hear the drums sounding"), attacking the southerners by surprise while many were bathing in a river. The rebel Anyanya (who took their name from the poison of a cobra or scorpion) lost a dozen men and considerable equipment. A bombing raid against a rebel base at Morta near the Uganda border caused nearly 1,000 civilian casualties...
...time Coriddi persuaded the new Christian Democratic government to put up 26 million lire to build a pipeline to Rocca Massima, whose people since the time of the Caesars had fetched water in copper vessels from three miles away in the vale of "La Femmina Morta" (the Dead Woman...
From Femina Morta ("Dead Woman's Corner"), U.S. tanks and infantry on the Anzio front punched within two miles of the Appian Way. Along the whole beachhead front, attacks great & small flared up and died. The Allied forces were still stalled. But in the air, infantrymen saw some cheer...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "It is reported that upon hearing that Eleanora Duse, whom I once loved but whom I have not seen for years, is to play in Manhattan this Fall in my Citta Morta, I said: 'If it be true, I shall be there myself! Nothing has affected me in years as has this news...
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