Word: sardinia
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...pettiness, scheming and serial infidelities. But in contrast to the early works, which parodied the unabashed boorishness of young French tourists in the sex-addled 1970s at an Ivory Coast Club Med resort and, in the second film, on the ski slopes, the new movie finds our antiheroes visiting Sardinia in overripe middle age. Experience has taught them little more than how to hone their barbs. Their fashion choices are worse than ever, and the embonpoint of token bimbo Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions. Past entanglements collide with new realities to create fresh comic crises...
...intelligence hoaxes of the war; in London. The ploy, recounted in Montagu's 1953 book (later a movie), involved a body that washed up on the coast of Spain outfitted in a Royal Marines uniform and with papers indicating that the next Allied thrust would come in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily. The German high command fell for the ruse, and the beaches of Sicily were only lightly defended when the Allies landed in July...
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...doesn't do Michael Moore-style voice-overs. Instead he uncorks his views through his characters' stubborn devotion to wine. The 21/4-hour film is a willful distillation of some 500 hours of rushes shot over a period of four years in vineyards located everywhere from the Brazilian rainforest to Sardinia to deepest Burgundy. In France, where Mondovino opened Nov. 3, the film has received mostly positive reviews and lots of buzz among wine lovers. It comes out in the U.K. next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into a 10-hour...
...desk jobs, eating fatty processed foods, blowing a gasket in a freeway traffic jam, exercising no more than our fingers at the computer--that centenarians can't imagine. Most of them were born into an America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People tilled the fields because their farmer parents needed cheap help. People ate what they grew because it was there. Most labor was manual then...