Word: siesta
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Having established the innocence of his angel (Stefania Sandrelli), Germi first thrusts her into an earthy peasant farce. One midday siesta she is seduced and becomes pregnant. Her father, played with inexhaustible bravura by Saro Urzi, consults a lawyer cousin, explaining that the doctor has brought up a little problem about Agnese. "Tumor?" asks the cousin. "Honor," growls Don Vincenzo. He sends his only son Antonio to murder the seducer, assured that the boy's punishment will be no more than three to seven years in prison, provided he can prove that he killed "in a blind rage...
...minute trips turned into hour-long undertakings, and it was always rush hour in this siesta city, where people normally go home to celebrate the three-hour lunch. Business suffered, and so did social life; instead of zipping across Rome in their Ferraris to make three parties a night, the glitter set began going only to parties in the immediate neighborhood. Last week Rome was incredulously experiencing something nobody thought would ever happen again-traffic was moving...
...cover painting was selected after a long search through existing works of art, particularly contemporary American painting and sculpture. It is Siesta, painted in 1962 by John Koch, 54, a noted Manhattan artist who has done one previous cover for TIME, Britain's Princess Margaret (Nov. 7, 1955). The room is the Kochs' bedroom at their country home on Long Island; the models were an art gallery director who is a friend of the Kochs', and a maid in their employ. Painter Koch (pronounced coke), whose wife is Dora Zaslavsky, a teacher of concert pianists, is perhaps...
...Siesta is in the collection of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Semans of Durham, N.C., who first saw it in 1962 when they visited the Kraushaar Galleries in Manhattan. Later, Dr. Semans decided to buy the painting as a Christmas present for his wife, a daughter of the late U.S. Diplomat A. J. Drexel Biddle Jr. "Our first impulse was to hang it in the bedroom or the upstairs hall," said Dr. Semans, "but the painting was so lovely that we decided it should go in the living room...
...More Siestas. In Saigon, Lieut General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, the head of the ruling military junta, rode about almost unnoticed in a black Citroen (in contrast to Diem's vast motorcades), visiting a few government offices and military units. He also opened promising negotiations with Vietnamese sects that had withdrawn sup port from Diem but were not ready to rally to the new regime. But while still clearly favored by the population, the new regime seemed oddly reluctant to assume political leadership. One of its few decisions: to abolish the siesta that has traditionally closed government offices...