Word: neos
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Italian billionaire Silvio Berlusconi has TV stations, a soccer team and now -- with some help from his neo-Fascist allies -- a country
...days' worth of voting was done, Berlusconi stood triumphant on Italy's center stage; Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most important force in the country. In concert with the Northern League and the neo-Fascist National Alliance, the so-called Freedom Alliance had elbowed aside 45 years of corrupt postwar government. Armed with an absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament and close to a majority in the Senate, Berlusconi seemed certain to become the nation's next Prime Minister...
...always ask the film's director, Quentin Tarantino. And if you ever want to know what the titles to Madonna's songs meant, you could watch the movie, or you could ask Quentin. Normally you would have to track him down on the set of his latest high-power neo-noir film, or play phone tag with his agent. Now you can forget about he headache and instead of receiving a form letter, you can meet Tarantino in person. In fact, at the Avignon/Cambridge French--American Film Workshop starting today and running through April 11, you can ask Tarantino...
...such as Sam Fuller, John Bailey, Olivier Assays. Jean Pierre Gorin and David Brown; some that are the rising stars on both sides of the Atlantic such as Quentin Tarantino and other fledgling director such as Guy Jacques, Agnes Merlet, Nora Jacobson Matthew Harrison and Filip Forgeau. Tarantino's neo-noir, soon-to-be-classics. "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance" are to be shown. And even more notable is the premiere of Mika Kaurismaki's Amazonian adventure of a film within a film, "Tigrero: A Film That was Never Made" and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 cop drama...
...Then there was the introduction of guests, including a German neo-fascist, a delegation sent by president Saddam Hussein of Iraq and a Russian general recently freed from prison for his role in the uprising against President Boris N. Yeltsin in October...