Word: tulio
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...prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great events of Italy's recent past, ranging from the floods in Florence to the struggle against the Mafia in Sicily. At the same time he deftly involves us with a huge cast of characters-parents, siblings, lovers, friends. His melodramatic punctuations of these lives never jar us into disbelief...
...television occupy more and more corrida seats; so do camera-lugging tourists. Neither group complains about increases in ticket prices of as much as 80%. Neither knows the difference between the "comfortable" Galache breed of bulls they see and the brave but seldom-seen breeds like Pablo Romeros, Tulio Vazquez and the legendary Miuras, who have killed seven matadors in modern times, including Manolete...
...spaceman to survive if he accidentally lost his oxygen supply, and 2) can a lowly sea-level type achieve the High Andean's resistance to oxygen deprivation-but in a matter of weeks instead of centuries? Helping Dr. Clark get the answers were Drs. Alberto Hurtado and Tulio Velasquez of Lima's Institute of Andean Biology...
...Girl of 20. When the sack of San Pedro moved into the next operation, looting, it became plain that Tulio had an extraordinary co-commander: a dark, slim girl of about 20. The bandits called her Doña Edelmira; she wore men's clothes, carried two revolvers and a knife, seemed to be Tulio's girl. Edelmira directed the pillage. The bandits stacked the loot in the plaza, loaded it on stolen mules. Bandolero, Edelmira enforced a stern rule upon the men; she permitted no raping or kidnaping of the village women...
...bandits found a single Liberal in the local jail, held on suspicion of aiding the bandits. Freed, this man showed Tulio's boys two drums of fuel intended for a local power plant. "If only they hadn't found that fuel!" mourned a San Pedro survivor later. Tulio ordered the town's homes burned, to flush out any possible police ambush, but forbade his men to fire the church or the school...