Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film a good review, you usually figure it must have something going for it. Viva Italia! might, indeed, have something going for it, but other than a few good sequences, I couldn't possibly find them. This ostensible comedy is the worst, most offensive legitimate film I have seen in a long time I can only repeat what my companion muttered as we left the theater: "I knew Italy had problems, but I didn't know it was this...
...cast a vote on President Carter's request to end the 42 month-old U.S. embargo on arms for Turkey. The ban had infuriated the Turks and weakened the southern flank of NATO. Whether or not Carter would succeed in persuading Congress to lift the embargo was seen as a major test for his Administration...
...have never compromised before." At week's end police were prepared to move on the house. Said the mayor: "There will be no more bargaining, no more conversations, meetings or agreements. These people represent nobody but themselves; they're complete idiots." But the mayor may not have seen the last of MOVE. "We may be leaving the house," said Delbert Africa, MOVE'S coordinator of confrontation and target practice, "but we're not leaving Philadelphia...
...quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about Christina and me," says Sergei, who earns $120 weekly tutoring pupils in English. "We are just ordinary people." Perhaps so. But it remains to be seen how long Christina, who longs for some peace and quiet, will be able to stand all the peace and quiet she is likely to get during the long, cold Moscow winter...
...Macke wrote in 1910, four years before he was killed in battle, "each risk is the desperate and chaotic experience of a man not in command of his tongue." The principal influence on Macke was French: the paintings of Delaunay, like A Window, 1912-13, which had been seen in Berlin in 1913. Its light-filled space, saturated with color-not the sober browns and grays of cubism, but the full radiance of the spectrum from high yellow through to ultramarine, with a vestigial slice of trusswork from the Eiffel Tower rising in the top third of the painting...