Word: vita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just after sunset on the day he succumbed, at 72, to pancreatic cancer, his wife Flora stood with the mayor of Rome and 500 other mourners at the Trevi Fountain, into whose waters Anita Ekberg had lured Mastroianni in the famous scene from Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Now the lights faded, the water from the Neptune statue stopped, a lone flutist played the theme from 8 1/2 as two black drapes were stretched over the fountain. It was a last token of love to a man who was imperfect and irresistible...
Before succumbing to Harvard, Brown (7-11, 4-2 Ivy) tallied its third-straight league win by downing Dartmouth, 68-64. Center Chris Yasaitis and Vita Redding, the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, led the charge for the Bears...
...FEDERICO FELLINI'S 1961 FILM La Dolce Vita, the mistress of the journalist played by Marcello Mastroianni castigates him and his photographer companion Paparazzo by telling them, "You're a lot of vultures! Don't you respect anything?" But even the celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi...
Carol Ann (Stockard Channing, making up for her dismal performance in "Smoke"), says to Swayze's Vita as the queens take off for L.A., "I don't think of you as a man. I don't think of you as a woman. I think of you as an angel." Please...
...Vita Poole, a representative of the local Red Cross chapter, said that they were not giving people free plane rides to Oklahoma because they had not been asked for volunteers...