Word: romes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having proved itself incapable of controlling the country and crushing the rebellion, the government has batted aside the offer of an olive branch. Under a conference sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome two months ago, the F.I.S. actually agreed to renounce violence. But fearful that the plan's provision for lifting the ban on the F.I.S. and barring the army from politics would pave the way for an Islamic republic, government hard-liners rejected the proposal, condemning the conference participants for "washing Algeria's dirty linen abroad...
Lewis and Longfellow met only once, during one of the poet's visits to Rome, where Lewis spent most of her adult life. Her interest piqued by the meeting, Lewis made several busts of Longfellow, which serve as the central pieces of the exhibit. Despite her African and American heritage, Lewis chose to work in the distinctly European genre of neoclassical sculpture, a fact that the exhibit tries to play up. Similarly, a marginalized artist's interest in a patriarchal icon like Longfellow is intended to serve as a metaphor for the difficulty of communication between members of a society...
...important role I have played so far"). After her former pimp, Carmine (Franco Citti), marries a well-to-do lady from the countryside, Mamma Roma attempts to lead a respectable life, selling vegetables in an open air Roman market. More importantly, she brings her son, Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), to Rome, with the hopes of providing him a good education and a job at a local restaurant...
...first, Mamma Roma succeeds in her attempt to raise her son in the petit-bourgeois world of Rome, rather than in the seedy world of Roman prostitution where she has spent her entire life. The height of her success is captured in a beautifully shot sequence where Ettore takes his mother out on the new motorcycle she has bought for him. The two speed through the streets of Rome, shouting excitedly to one another and laughing loudly atop the brand-new, shiny symbol of Mamma Roma's petit-bourgeois accomplishments...
...seven-time Italian premier and reputed crime-fighter, was indicted for allegedly consorting with the mafia over a lifetime. The 76-year-old Andreotti, Italy's leading postwar statesman, is the highest Italian official ever to be tried on mob charges. "It's really a tremendous charge," says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They're claiming that he was a full-fledged member of the mafia. If it's true, it's a terrible indictment of Italian society." Building their case on testimony from Mafia turncoats and former members of Andreotti's Christian Democrat party, prosecutors painted a devastating portrait...