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More and more retired U.S. citizens are discovering a bargain dolce vita across the Rio Grande. And the Mexi can government is doing its best to help the process of discovery. This month speakers from the National Council of Tourism, headed by ex-president Miguel Aleman, are campaigning throughout North America to build up Mexico's industria de los viejitos-the oldster industry-which the council estimates would be worth $400 million a year if Mexico could attract only 1% of the annual retirees in the U.S. and Canada...
...debate on Britain's high cost of living, while British workers grumbled loudly about its damage to their pay packets. In Italy, where the government has launched an unpopular austerity drive to halt rising prices, the man in the street has found a new scapegoat in la cara vita. And the French, who love to complain, moan relentlessly about la vie chere. In any language, inflation is Europe's foremost economic preoccupation-and the problem that most threatens its extended boom...
Blow for La Dolce Vita. Many marital cases drag on for ten years or more, but the lawyer who argued Lee's case before the Rota denies that she got any special favor. "I deliberately asked that this case be handled with severity," insists Dr. Fernando Delia Rocca. Since Lee was not saying, and the Rota does not publish its decisions until ten years after the ruling, Vatican insiders could only guess that her grounds were that Canfield refused to have any children...
...film with such a transparent plot could easily have been a clunker, but instead, The Easy Life is a wildly enchanting film. Director Dino Risi starts with what seems to be an upper middle class La Dolce Vita. Bruno, a middle-aged playboy from Rome, drives his sports car fast but isn't really happy because, deep down, he's bored and leading a superficial existence...
...brief glances into the emptiness of the outside lives of his co-workers. Caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, they exist without misery, without real joy, on a treadmill of uncompromising mediocrity. Yet this restrained portrait of an Italian class is more saddening even than the depravity of La Dolce Vita...