Word: noblewoman
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Reviled by her neighbors, she maintains a wintry dignity by creating the fiction that she is a noblewoman temporarily down on her luck, awaiting an inheritance from her father's estate...
...Italians are scoundrels!" Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. "Not all," an Italian noblewoman slyly replied, "but a good part (non tutti, ma buona parte...
...15th century Italian noblewoman whose features were probably also the inspiration for the terra-cotta bust-attributed to either Verrocchio or Leonardo-bought for $225 last month by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum (TIME...
...ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative tête-à-têtes with a fervent Contessina de Medici (Diane Cilento). The noblewoman presumably deduces his impotence when he tells her that God has compelled him to substitute the love of art for the art of love. "Love," she concludes, "is either agony or ecstasy-sometimes both at once...
Fortunately, the film's most fascinating characters are too busy searching for love, sex and other gratifications to devote much time to easy platitudes about German guilt. Werner, as a man dying of heart disease, conceives a wasting fondness for la Condesa (Simone Signoret), an exiled Spanish noblewoman who trades her favors for narcotics. Their scenes together, a duet of eye-to-eye messages that make dialogue seem beside the point, are showstoppers of stunning subtlety...