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Giuliano took care to see that his name did not rust. When interest in his exploits flagged, Giuliano wrote letters to Palermo editors. Once he declared war on Italy and offered to meet ten government officials, one at a time, in mortal combat. "If I lose, I lose only my life," he said. "If I win, I take over the government." Two years ago Mama Giuliano was arrested for abetting the bandits. When she was later released in a general Holy Year amnesty, her son issued a statement to the papers thanking all concerned and suggesting an armistice between himself...
...Other mortal weaknesses: some of the picture's homely details of lower middle-class life are theatrical and patronizing; William Wellman's uneven direction is inclined to be sticky; Actor Whitmore mars an otherwise good performance with a few grotesque excesses. As unmixed blessings, Next Voice offers a fine, attractive piece of well-balanced acting by Nancy Davis and the most refreshingly frank, unaffected view of pregnancy yet shown by Hollywood. Vulnerable as it is, the movie is largely successful, on its own terms: a low common denominator of emotional appeal...
...with the wonderful name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...
...ancient times, the Hindu legend goes, the 330 million angels were as mortal as man. The angels discovered that they could defeat death by drinking the divine nectar which was kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with...
...boys lay in state in true gangster tradition. Undertaker Pete Lapetina supplied two solid copper 900-lb. caskets that cost $1,500 apiece. The crowd that came to see the mortal remains of Kansas City's murdered Northside boss, Charley Binaggio, and his gun-toting henchman, Charles Gargotta, was bigger than the funeral home's large "chapel" could accommodate. Each body was laid to rest with a Requiem Mass...