Word: paradiso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, Cambridge resident Don C. Buell reported to police that he had fallen on a cement block outside the Cafe Paradiso at the intersection of Eliot and Winthrop Streets. The restaurant's owner was notified, and she removed the block. Buell refused treatment from Professional Ambulance paramedics...
...Roman Catholic churches, notes that up until then, heaven "had been real for me. I had spent a lot of time thinking about moral choices, free will and salvation." But here was an invitation to a deeper immersion, culminating in a study of Dante Alighieri's 14th century epic Paradiso and its celebration of heaven as a "state of being in which we open up more to love." He accepted the assignment...
Your piece on the poor performance of foreign-language films at U.S. box offices [CINEMA, Jan. 13] unfairly blamed this on Americans' cultural self-absorption. You somehow missed the main point. Uplifting movies like Cinema Paradiso succeeded because they aren't arty and bleak. Audiences worldwide want films that are entertaining in order to take their minds off their troubles. PAUL F. STETSON Copenhagen
...pecuniary prospects for the summer. Fate, in the guise of Scott, my best friend from high school, soon took care of my woes and secured me a position at the movie theater where he was employed. I began to think that perhaps kismet was leading me down the "Cinema Paradiso" path. And though I felt that I, like those widows in 18th century English novels, had "come down in the world," I accepted...
...Despite the fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with real butter...