Word: thief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accompanied by Alfredo Antonini and the CBS Orchestra, sings songs marking the observance of Passover. Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Kim Hunter, James Daly and Dennis King in a play based on the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate and the freeing of Barabbas, the thief. Repeat. Color. The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The dissolution of the French empire in Southeast Asia, brought on by the defeat of the French by Communist forces in Dienbienphu. Project 20 (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The last days of Christ, leading up to the Crucifixion...
Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thief (1949) typifies the post-war Italian film of realism; it shows simple, poor people enmeshed in an uncomplicated but terrifying trap. Unemployment, hunger and injustice close in on Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani); he commits an unsuccessful robbery and the film ends on a note of despair...
What greater contrast could there be to Bicycle Thief than Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part I? Semi mythical, heavily "artistic," and at several steps removed from experience, Ivan (1945) appeals to the eye almost exclusively. The most useful analogy for describing this film is that of grand opera. Just as opera subordinates everything to music, Eisenstein suspends verisimilitude and dramatic intensity to give full play to the carefully arranged, visual sequences of this opera of design...
...addition to the versatile Testa, the death list included some burglars, a thief, and a suspected juice dealer. Since the killings began, the possibility that they may fit into a master plan of thugicide has fascinated Chicago, a town that has never lost its interest in organized murder. But the most popular theory is that the hoods are being killed in unrelated fights over the crumbs left by the syndicate bosses, who, under police pressure, have been cutting down operations. Says Deputy Police Superintendent Joseph Morris: "These fellows were all messenger boys. If they were controlled by the syndicate...
Still stunned by the recent wave of art thefts, the galleries of Europe are wiring themselves for sound. Last week an exhibition opened in Munich of 400 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. If a thief so much as touches one. an alarm will go off. London's National Gallery and Tate Gallery are considering placing their pictures in a new kind of mat-a thin layer of foam rubber sandwiched between two foil sheets that are wired to the wall. It will do a thief no good to cut the wires, for the alarm will go off anyway. Price...