Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared on the show to justify his killing of a Vietnamese double agent. On another program, Fashion-Model Czarina Eileen Ford got into a ranting match with two other women over whether mannequins are sexually promiscuous (some are, some aren't). Author Luigi Barzini told of the time that Mussolini, accompanied by a phalanx of officials and journalists, was motoring through the countryside. Suddenly the caravan halted and Il Duce got out and walked to a wall, apparently to gaze at the scene. Everybody else respectfully went over to share the leader's bucolic vision, only to discover that Mussolini...
Since Alexandria, however, Prince Borghese has not acted very nobly. He remained a fascist loyal to the ousted Mussolini. At war's end he was imprisoned for hanging partisans, but was granted amnesty after only three years. Flabby and bulb-nosed, the "Black Prince," as Italians refer to him, was kicked out of the neo-Fascist Parliamentary Party for extremism. Three months ago, he told a newsman that "the state is so rotten it will not even be necessary to give it a small push." Last week a warrant was out for Borghese's arrest on grounds that...
...Conformist is a threnody to an era and a political regime, Mussolini's Italy. Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, the film reproduces the Italy and France of the 1930s with almost operatic splendor; no recent film has been so visually lush or stylistically exhilarating. It is a pity that the scenario cannot quite meet the demands of the mise en scene...
Bertolucci breaks up the chronological flow of the narrative, preferring to let images and scenes occur to the audience more or less as they do to Marcello. A flash forward near the film's end puts Marcello in the last night of Mussolini's regime, wandering the streets in confusion. He overhears two homosexuals flirting and turns to confront the chauffeur he thought he had murdered. But the only thing Marcello had really murdered was an accurate memory of the incident. There was no killing. The last scene finds him confronting his nature for the first time...
...Before you begin a "canonization" ritual of "Savior" Allende, please bear in mind that Mussolini, Hitler, Jimenez, Castro and Papa Duvalier all began in the same phony manner. First, treat your subjects with plenty of tender loving care, win their gullible confidence, then slowly but surely apply the inevitable pressures of cruel, totalitarian dictatorship...