Word: towns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concord's Common has a commemorative obelisk. We passed through town to a national park at the site of the old North Bridge. Before you get to the bridge a monument tells you that this was the site of the first armed resistance to the British. Across the bridge a path leads up to an impeccably manicured garden and a visitors' center...
...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Anthony Quinn reaches comic-opera stature as the roistering, boozy Bombolini, who becomes the town's hero as he cons the invading Germans out of nearly 1,000,000 bottles of vermouth. Anna Magnani as Rosa, his strong-willed wife, proves every bit the match for Bombolini-not to mention the Nazis...
...from the casinos' profits with the aid of crooked owners and divided among leaders of the Cosa Nostra. In 1966, however, the FBI and state officials stepped in, and the skimming racket was dead. Several casinos were sold to new operators, including Billionaire Howard Hughes. The mob left town, but their departure was only temporary...
...setting and the mood are Saroyanesque, an East Texas small-town bar. The time is the '40s and '50s, as the hero (Ken Kercheval) grows from boyhood to manhood. The father claims that he hates the boy, which is only half true. Not the least of Hailey's sound intuitions is the recognition that love and hate are not opposites but twins. The father is a butcher. He is violent, sentimental, and fiercely masculine. He has kept a one-fisted grip on two women for 20 years, his wife (Teresa Wright) and his mistress, played...
Laughlin was unavailable for comment yesterday. The director and associate director of the Personnel Office were out of town and also unavailable for comment...