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...with guilt and melancholy. Filmmaker Bernardo Bertollucci--once a Godard acolyte--here encloses himself in circular storytelling and claustrophobic environment. A repressed homosexual (Jean-Louis Trintignant) turns to Fascism to become one of the boys, can't cut the mustard even then, and finally returns to simpering solitude when Mussolini falls. The film examines the paths decadence travels in a decrepit society: note that the liberal professor whom Trintignant reveres fled Italy when his student most needed him, and--with the comic tone of a benign cuckold--tolerates wife Sanda's lesbianism. Bertollucci expresses his characters' anxieties and pleasures without...
...Italian law stipulates that the widow of a Prime Minister gets a 50% higher pension than the widow of an ordinary Minister. So one 81-year-old woman is suing the government for a raise in her pension from $258.40 to $387.60 a month. After all, Husband Benito Mussolini was Italy's Fascist Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 (he was eventually shot by anti-Fascist partisans and then hung by his heels alongside his mistress). When Italian newspapers questioned whether the dictator's widow really deserved more money-plus the return of three Mussolini farms that...
...Macmillan. the Egyptian President was a sort of South Shore Mussolini. "In dealing with him [Nasser], every display of timidity or weakness was seized upon and exploited. No action, however generous or fairminded, could reap any reward." As for Dulles, his "vanity more than equalled his talents." At first Dulles told Britain that after seizing the canal, Nasser must be made to "disgorge what he was attempting to swallow." Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course. By Macmillan...
...Mussolini's Millions. Gollin guesses that the wealth of Catholicism round the world totals $70 billion, most of it tied up in real estate. As for the church's headquarters, Gollin's two chapters on Vatican finances depict a much shrewder investment operation than that in the American branch office. In 1929 Mussolini paid the Vatican, which was then virtually broke, $92 million in return for Italy's previous takeover of the Papal States. By 1968, Vatican-employed businessmen, chiefly Bernardino Nogara, a Jewish banker, had parlayed this into a $300 million stake in the Italian...
Gruening said, "The Nixon Administration is guilty of genocide" just as "Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. We do it in the name of freedom and liberation, adding hypocrisy to all our other sins...