Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Literary Executor to Norman Douglas Rome...
When the fierce old Imam of Yemen clumped off to Rome five months ago to treat his arthritis, rheumatism, heart trouble (and reportedly drug addiction), all the malcontents produced by his eleven years of absolute rule thought they saw their chance. No sooner was the Imam gone than his troops mutinied, his courtiers began to intrigue, and tribal chieftains began to fight out their ancient grudges against each other. Swayed by Egyptian advice, the Imam's bumbling caretaker son. Crown Prince Badr, unsuccessfully tried to buy off the dissidents by promising "reforms"-the appointment of a representative council, more...
...Vittorio De Sica), who was forced to become a Nazi spy but eventually gave his life for his country, the Rossellini effort was an almost unanimous critical success. "Comeback!" cried the critics, and talked of the old Rossellini of Paisan and Open City. "Finally a good film," beamed Rome's Tempo. "With this picture all hopes are rekindled. The old, glorious banner of the first Rossellinian neorealism flies again...
Handel:Concerti Gross! Opus 6(1 Mu-sici Ensemble; Epic). A mixture of exuberant passages, serene fugues and multivoiced instrumental harmonies, Handel's Concerti Nos. 4, 9 and 10 get the electric tempo they deserve from a brilliant ensemble that was launched in Rome...
...other hand, De Sica is unable to accept the fact that his 16-year-old daughter has, since her last fitting, developed a 35-inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...