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...Gloria" (Laura Branigan) from the Italian song by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" (Elvis Presley) from the 18th century French ballad "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean-Pierre Claris "It's Now or Never" (Elvis Presley) from the 19th century Italian song "O Sole Mio" by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo Di Capua "Jealousy" (Frankie Laine) from the "gypsy tango" by the Danish composer Jacob Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from...
DIED. MARIA JOSE CHARLOTTE HENRIETTA GABRIELLA, 94, Italy's last Queen before the nation became a republic in 1946; in Geneva. As a member of the Savoy dynasty, she ruled alongside her husband, King Umberto II, for a total of 27 days following the abdication of his father, Vittorio Emanuele. After a public referendum vetoed the monarchy--and rejected the facist regime of Benito Mussolini--the couple fled into exile. Gabriella never returned, but her demise may prove to be the catalyst needed to lift a lifetime ban on the male Savoy heirs...
...first time in panel cartoons, characters spoke, as novelist and semiotics professor Umberto Eco noted, "in two different keys." The "Peanuts" characters conversed in plain language and at the same time questioned the meaning of life itself. "Peanuts" depicted genuine pain and loss but somehow, as the cartoonist Art Spiegelman observed, "still kept everything warm and fuzzy." By fusing adult ideas with a world of small children, Schulz reminded us that although childhood wounds remain fresh, we have the power as adults to heal ourselves with humor. If we can laugh at the daily struggles of a bunch of funny...
There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably...less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that Casablanca works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have been just another forgettably routine wartime movie...
There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably... less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that "Casablanca" works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have been just another forgettably routine wartime movie...