Word: vittorio
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Whether Pippo works in a Luxembourg steel mill, digs coal in Belgian mines or mans a Volkswagen assembly line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...
King Umberto II of Italy, 72, was ousted by popular vote after World War II and a reign of 34 days; he lives in Portugal. His son Vittorio Emanuele, 39, is a successful businessman based in Switzerland; he is married to a commoner, Marina Doria, and has two children...
Died. Count Luchino Visconti, 69, Italian aristocrat who became a movie director at the age of 30 and made an international reputation with a handful of meticulously wrought and highly atmospheric films; of a heart attack while suffering from influenza; in Rome. An early neorealist, along with Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni, Visconti used Sicilian villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic...
Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (Birgit Finnilä, contralto; Ingeborg Springer, mezzo-soprano; Elly Ameling, soprano; Annelies Burmeister, contralto;. Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri, conductor. 3 LPs; Philips; $23.94). Vivaldi composed his 1716 oratorio for his students at the Ospedale della Pietá. the Venetian orphanage where he taught music. The subject was a bloody one for schoolgirls: after beguiling the barbarian commander with words and wine, Judith seizes his sword and chops off his head. The score is sumptuous, propelled by the Baroque master's typical unflagging vitality. In this recording both male and female solo roles are sung...
...have been made with Giancarlo Giannini. His presence galvanizes her movies. His racked, searching eyes haunt them. "Those eyes are extraordinary," Wertmuller told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They seem to contain an independent life force-as if they could scream, curse, plead, argue and make love." Giannini, like Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni before him, fulfills the perennial audience yearning for a romantic image and the abiding need for an adroit actor of humor and mercurial sensibility...