Word: pickpocketings
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...mood, mixing farce and tragedy, is endlessly complex. Yet De Sica continually achieves the casual visual epigram. His camera, like a wise old pickpocket, filches its riches unobtrusively. And the actors seem to fulfill the creator's intentions as naturally as if they were his hands and feet-even De Sica does exactly what De Sica wants. Toto, Italy's Chaplin, is exquisitely funny. Loren's parts fit beautifully into the whole. Mangano for once is convincing, and Paolo Stoppa, as a man who wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best...
...Back came a note of tempered gratitude in which Truman gruffed: "I suppose there has to be a first time for everything." But of the News, a Democratic paper that used to belabor Truman often, the ex-President of the U.S. huffed: "That paper has treated me like a pickpocket...
...story, written by Novelist Alberto Moravia, is a cheerful bit of babble, a tolerant spoof of the great game of guardie e ladri (cops and robbers), which many Italians play with a good-natured gusto all their lives. Sophia, the daughter of a prominent pickpocket (Vittorio De Sica), conies hippety-hipping up to a taxi one day with a couple of boy friends. They ask the driver (Roberto Mastroianni) to head for the beach. On the way, Sophia keeps breathing down the cabby's neck and crooning Bongo Bongo Bongo in his ear. At the beach he waits while...
...paced half hour to the Black Arts. Gali Gali, a sleight-of-hand Egyptian, displayed a witty routine involving empty eggcups and a small barnyard of baby chicks; three attractively inept dancers with the help of a black backdrop and black-garbed assistants suavely defied gravity; Dominique, a French pickpocket, took a spectator's shirt from his back without his knowing...
Paso de la Muerte. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Pickpocket Adolfo Ramírez proudly told police he wished he could patent his new pilfering technique of spreading a sample of cloth over his right arm while posing as a piece-goods salesman, then distracting his victims' attention with left-handed gestures while his right hand explored their pockets...