Word: mussolinis
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...that barren as it looks to most people, Pantelleria is a thing of beauty to military strategists. The island is the closest point in Europe to the North African mainland-it is only 44 miles from the coast of Tunisia -and is still honeycombed with military tunnels built by Mussolini during World War II. Though the Italian army now has only a 20-man weather team on the island, there are rumors that NATO would like to use it as a radar station to keep track of Arab air forces in North Africa. The rumors are unofficially confirmed by military...
...from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star menus. There are other royal rides for those who like to look an English cowslip in the eye or find out for them selves that Mussolini did indeed make Italy's trains run on time. "For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train...
Love and Anarchy. A peasant anarchist named Tunin comes to Rome to kill Mussolini. But his intention--which at first balanced the ideological and the personal into committed purpose--becomes perverted when he enters the city and a life where people market themselves out of bitterness and fear. Here, at the bordello where he prepares for his mission, as he clings to his humanity he can only lose his vision. He sets a trap for himself. One of the best political films in a long while...
Love and Anarchy. A recent Italian film by woman director Lina Wertmuller, set in a whorehouse in the time of Mussolini. Reportedly one of the finest political films in a long while. They say that this one doesn't hedge its bets with "ambience," or throw in all the chips of youthful revolutionary ardor. It just makes its own quiet statement...
...clearly marked the end of the public career of the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) monarch who won the world's heart 38 years ago when he stood on the podium of the League of Nations in Geneva, begging the world's powers to help him oust Mussolini's troops from Ethiopia. "God and history will remember your judgment!" he warned the delegates...