Word: umberto
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...soon be added to the environment. Studies have shown that the extraction of oil from shale and gas from coal-processes that could eventually be used on a large scale-produces polycyclic hydrocarbons, compounds that can cause cancer in man. Says the National Cancer Institute's Dr. Umberto Saffiotti: "Cancer in the last quarter of the 20th century can be considered a social disease, a disease whose causation and control are rooted in the technology and economy of our society...
...company. The contrast between this thought-provoking silence and the numbing intrusions on her spirit that we have witnessed in the film's opening sections could not be more vividly evoked. In a directorial career devoted largely to exploring the ways poverty assaults dignity (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D), De Sica may have made more forceful statements, but never a more poignant one than he does here with the exquisite assistance of Florinda Bolkan...
...furniture, immense Carmen Miranda style nightclubs, of two-tone deSotos and banana daiquiris. The older generation, at least, lived like old-fashioned Italian dons--eating good food, living in fine old houses, aspiring to a taste for literature and history. The younger generation is caught halfway between Scarsdale and Umberto's Clam House. Surprisingly, the movie Godfather II is closest to is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: two hard young men, both ethnic outsiders, lose their humanity in the struggle to gain and hold on to a dream of power, wealth and respectability, all against a background of the same...
...president of Compagnie Ferguson Morrison-Knudsen, a Paris-based subsidiary of America's Morrison-Knudsen Co., while Michael of Rumania is a stockbroker in Lausanne. Some live off the money they or their family got out of the country. Others, like Italy's Umberto, manage very well with the help of monarchist friends who either hope to restore them to power or are moved by a sense of nostalgia...
Almost all have given up hopes of returning. Don Juan and Umberto still hold shadow court in Portugal's Estoril, but more as a gesture to the past than a look to the future. Albania's Leka and Bulgaria's Simeon, on the other hand, still work for the day when their people will come to their senses and call them back. The only one who seems to have a real chance of resuming the kingly tradition, however, is Don Juan's son Prince Juan Carlos, who has been promised the Spanish throne on the death...