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Twenty days after her marriage to a gentle farmer named Batà (Claudio Bigagli), pretty Sidora (Enrica Maria Modugno) is startled to hear the baying of an animal in torment. It is Batà, who, as he explains, suffers fearful convulsions each night of the full moon. A scholar of his own illness, Batà instructs Sidora to lock herself away from him, but as the moon waxes he breaks through a window and attacks her. Come the next full moon, Sidora is prepared for the worst and the best. Her handsome cousin Saro (Massimo Bonetti) will protect her and, if God hears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Folk Artistry | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

France was in torment . Youths marched through the streets of Nantes shouting lethal threats at their neighbors. The Jewish-owned shops of Nancy were invaded and the synagogue besieged. In Paris, anti-Semitic troops marched in the Latin Quarter, on the boulevards and around the Palais de Justice: familiar sights to students of World War II--but this was two generations before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftershocks: THE AFFAIR | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...storms of the marriage have subsided. "I think the Horowitzes have a relationship that transcends most marriages," remarks a close friend. "They have suffered, they have been hurt, and they have come through their personal torment, needing each other today with a degree of happiness that is freer and better than anything they had before." Wanda is at once mother, sister, friend, wife, adviser and sweetheart, guarding her husband against any real or perceived lèse majesté. "In the end," notes another family friend, "she believes faithfully and passionately that his genius is to play the piano like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vladimir Horowitz: The Prodigal Returns | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Charming performances by Bartkus and Videt, as the hippies who are hit over the head by the stick man, sharply contrast with Fairley’s difficult inner torment over never having been satisfied in his life...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Man Who... Starts Slow, Finishes Strong | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...does the press persist in giving so much free publicity to those shrieking robots who threaten, abuse, torment and kill our citizens as well as those of other nations? Mary T Burley Mount Morris, Mich. Pressuring South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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