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...York State will join the trend, restricting smokers in restaurants with 51 or more seats to designated areas. The Beverly Hills ordinance, passed unanimously by the city council, penalizes disobedient smokers -- and restaurants that fail to display no-smoking signs -- with fines of up to $500. Mayor Charlotte Spadaro, whose mail is running 2 to 1 in favor of the ban, views it as similar to laws "against pollution and toxic waste, designed to make the environment safe for everyone...
...middle-aged hero (Umberto Spadaro), Fascism at first is something to suffer in silence and loathe from a distance. Then it closes in until it engulfs him: it forces him to join the party or lose his job; it turns his wife and daughter into prattling Mussolini worshipers; it sends his oldest son (Massimo Girotti) to fight in Ethiopia, Spain, Albania and Russia and claims his two younger sons for the Battle of Sicily...
...Umberto recognizes that his reluctant silence meant consent, and feels the final crushing weight of his own responsibility. By then it is too late even to make his peace with the Allied conquerors. Cynical connivers higher up in the party suddenly emerge as democrats, but small-fry Fascist Spadaro loses the little job that he once joined the party to save...
...Difficult Years offers a masterly Chaplinesque performance by Actor Spadaro, as the pathetic, sometimes ludicrous hero. And Director Zampa tells his quiet, straightforward story with compassion, humor, biting irony and a firm grasp of character. It is a story full of meaning for a world still under totalitarian clouds...
...resigned the leadership of his powerful Party tamely, declaring that he did not wish to cause trouble over the relations between the Partito and the Church. He will be replaced by a Committee of three, Giulio Rodino (former Minister of War), Giovanni Gronchi (former Under Secretary of State), Signor Spadaro (Party Committeeman). No member of this Triumvirate is sufficiently astute or strong to withstand Mussolini's extra-Party steamroller. For the past six months rumors have been current that Mussolini, by restoring Catholic education in the public schools, had bought Vatican support for the destruction of Don Sturzo...
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