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...American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
Certainly subtlety is not a strength of the play and just to remind us one more time of the shallowness and superficiality of life in the popular lane, at the end of the first act, when the principal announces over the loud speaker that the President (Kennedy) has been shot, the three girls are convinced that he is talking about the president of the student body...
...Toxic waste and acid rain are not the concern only of isolated special interests, nor are they left-wing issues. The special interests in the case of toxic dumping are the chemical companies, in whose interest it is to contaminate public drinking water. Real special interests, the Democrats should remind people more often, are mostly under the Republican umbrella: defense contractors, the tobacco lobby, the NRA, chemical companies. Those groups speak for themselves and no one else, usually against the public interest...
Nevertheless, she remains optimistic about the coming year and student activism in general. "An activist asks for a lot more than he or she gets. We're here to remind the administration that they're accountable to their employees," she says philosophically...
...That's a building in mourning," said former mayor and Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. "Remember the old armbands that immigrant men used to wear when there was a death in the family? The black bands running around the building remind me of Italian funerals...