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...their unresolved courtship, and ends in a wartime winter several years later, inside a barren schoolroom crowded with Jews awaiting confinement. In between, De Sica observes the gathering momentum of catastrophe in small, subtle moments: anonymous phone calls during a Passover celebration, a tiny Nazi flag in a newsboy's bike basket...
Convinced that money is the problem, Lucia hatches a sort of Raffles-in-hair-ribbons plot to rob a jewelry store, fence the proceeds through her favorite newsboy, reunite her parents in New York and live with them ever after. The plot is a hilarious failure, but the robbery makes such a scandal that Grandma sends Lucia back to her mother. Lucia arrives in a glow, triumphant. "Mother, I love you. I'm home." Mother, just out of a mental hospital, begins to laugh hysterically...
...rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony documents, cipher books. In 1953 one of his hollow nickels containing microfilm found its way into the hands of a newsboy, who gave the coin to the police. But FBI agents did not bag Abel until four years later, when an underling defected and turned him in. He admitted only that he had entered the U.S. illegally, but he was convicted and sentenced to 30 years. Four years later he was exchanged...
...luggage. It is night, and raining ferociously. As I walk outside, one of the guards sees me, laughs out loud and waves. I wave back, grinning not so broadly. The Center is a huge dark building four stories high and as big as a city block.... I ask a newsboy who sells me a paper with a guerrilla story on the cover-"Who are these guerrillas?" He says that they are "Bandits that kill people...
...Whaddaya trying' to do, bud, run me out of business?" shouts the newsboy...