Word: vesuvian
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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The knowing eye of Director Vittoria De Sica scans Italy's greatest natural wonder, Sophia Loren, whose Vesuvian warmth bubbles through this three-part comedy co-starring the ubiquitous Mastroianni...
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The knowing eye of Director Vittorio De Sica scans Italy's greatest natural wonder, Sophia Loren, whose Vesuvian warmth bubbles through the three-part comedy co-starring Marcello Mastroianni...
...Dirksen was in his most Vesuvian oratorical humor. Dodd's criticisms, he cried, amounted to "incoherencies." Noting that Dodd had not yet arrived on the floor, Dirksen said that "the brave crusader from the Nutmeg State on his white charger has great zeal for being here and getting on with business, and he is not here...
When the evil tidings were borne to him in Hollywood, 61-year-old Walter flew into a Vesuvian rage. Elsa Maxwell, fumed he, is a "fat, sloppy, smelly [unmentionable]." What was worse, said he, she had jeopardized his pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund: "Letters have been pouring in from people saying, 'We're not going to give any money to the fund because we hear on the Paar show that you are un-American!'" Winchell announced plans to enrich the Runyon Fund by $24 million by suing all twelve of Paar's sponsors...
After exchanging Vesuvian clinches and clichés, Lana and Carlos elope without benefit of clergy, and the camera trails dutifully after them, pausing only for Technicolored glances at such tourist resorts as Positano and Amalfi. At long last, Lana's heart of gold rings true: she nobly sends her lover back to his roommate and his hand-wringing bride-to-be. Then, in the unmistakably Italo-American manner of Jimmy Durante, Lana walks off alone into the night, her head held high and going-as the synopsis puts it-"who knows where...