Word: senso
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...cinema. "Voyage" begins with Magnani's death in "Open City" and ends with Cardinale's seraphic smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl (14-year-old Valeria Ciangottini), her face innocent and knowing, beckons to Mastroianni, and in his wry stupor...
...Reagan to take all appropriate action to persuade Japan to remove barriers to American products. The only objections before the vote on the nonbinding measure came from legislators who argued that it was not strong enough. Said Montana Democrat Max Baucus: "I want to say only one word--boeki-senso. That is Japanese for trade war." Snapped Lawton Chiles, a Florida Democrat: "The U.S. can't go on playing Ann Landers and letting the rest of the world cry on our shoulders when it comes to foreign trade. Even Ann Landers can spot a bad deal when she sees...
Visconti's SENSO, Thursday, March 23 at 8 p.m., Mather House Dining Hall...
...tough ex-Gangbuster Joseph Berry Keenan had arrived in Tokyo as U.S. chief prosecutor. Warrants for the arrests of more & more suspects (286 to date) poured from U.S. Army desks. Japan's entire ruling class-diplomats, businessmen, journalists, educators-had the jitters. But when anyone mentioned the words senso hanzaisha (war criminal), they kept their faces straight and bland...
...Senso wa zuibun aku-eikyo wo atae-ta," said many a Japanese citizen in private last week. The sentence had to be said in private because it was a grave admission: "The war hits us pretty heavily." The Japanese have come to realize all too well that their adventure in China is now primarily a currency war rather than an orthodox military engagement. Last week they began to take official notice of the fact that in the currency war, China has both natural advantages and allies with cash, while Japan has neither...