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...Meter Hurdles--1. Kate Brew, Dartmouth, 1:03.50; 2. Jennifer Signori, Dartmouth, 1:04.54; 3. Nancy Lutz, Harvard, 1:05.68; 4. Patty Min, Harvard...
...Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Pietro Germi's boisterous travelogue through the bedrooms of a small Italian city was originally called simply Signore e Signori; its hoked-up English title is about its only flaw...
...judges awarded eight prizes-each more unpopular than the next. Several critics suggested that a ninth prize be awarded to the "worst judges in the history of the Cannes Film Festival." Others posted a petition denouncing the judges for "selecting the two most vulgar films, Alfie and Signore e Signori." Shrugged Judge Loren: "You can't please everybody." Agreed departing Judge Ustinov, relieved to be relieved of his assignment: "I am going to take a sabbatical and go back to being a crook...
...critics agreed with only half of the judges' first-prize choice -Un Homme et Une Femme, a love story with a car-racing background (TIME, May 20.) What disturbed the critics was that the judges decided to split the top award with another film, Signore e Signori, yet another view of middle-class Italian mores by Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style); nor did many viewers agree with the selection of the British Alfie, starring Michael Caine, for the judges' "Special Prize...
...seaside restaurants of Ostia near Rome, fashionably clothed signori and signorine sneer at Americans in their slacks, sweaters and tennis sneakers. The publishing industry is booming, and Italy's 60 movie sound stages steadily employ 27,000 workers, while Hollywood is on the ropes. Apart from sex and spectacles, the theme of Italian movies is changing: man's fight to make a living is increasingly replaced by the effort to understand himself in a complex, prosperous society...