Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soldier starts at the bottom, breaking in as a senior thug's driver, bodyguard or shylock debt collector. He earns about $20,000 a year, in the form of cash from his boss, a salary from a phantom job in a Mob-infiltrated business or a share in the proceeds of a racket. If his superior approves, the new man can start some minor enterprise of his own?loan-sharking, bookmaking, labor racketeering. If he demonstrates a taste for violence, business acumen and organizational skill, he will rise rapidly...
...moviehouse in Minnesota or somewhere that has been screening Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude for the past five years straight, the Central Square Cinema probably holds the modern record for a consecutive run of one film and this Phillip deBroca farce is it. About a World War One soldier who liberates the patients in a country nursing home and joins them in a jolly romp around about the streets of a small town, it is the perfect parable of Cambridge life. Free and freaky--but within bounds, harmless and unsubversive. The kooks return to the asylum...
...ministry cloaks his passion for his stepmother, and of Caroline Jones, who is genuinely sympathetic as the Countess Charlotte Malcolm. If Charlotte's husband Carl Magnus (Nick Littlefield) is somewhat wooden, his stiffness is forgivable on two counts: first, he is, after all, no more than a "tin soldier," and secondly, he can sing. In this show, that is no small boon. On the other hand, Bonny Fay Landers's Madame Armfeldt, Desiree's mother, is too much crotchetiness and not enough whimsy...
Arrien, bombed out and rebuilt, the old men, many with Gudari (Basque republic soldier) emblems in their lapels, sit drinking tinto, playing cards and ruminating about Spain's first parliamentary elections in 41 years, to be held next June. They remain insistent that the truth must come forth about Guernica. "We need to get at the whole truth," says Pensioner Juan Aguirre, 61, "and we still don't have...
...prefers to use the most obsolete devices of traditional fiction. It seems a century since one act of illicit sex led the heroine to pregnancy. Here, when Ida is raped by a homesick German soldier, little blue-eyed Giuseppe appears promptly nine months later. In bygone books, the children of such misalliances were frequently provided with preternatural or otherwise spooky talents. Hester Prynne, for example, was unsettled by the prescience of her illegitimate daughter Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Similarly, Ida frets naively about Giuseppe's intense otherworldliness. Morante's symbolism is rarely more modern than the 19th...