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...Viva Maria! looks like a Hollywood comic western, the sort the studios describe as "rollicking round-ups," or "madcap hi-jinx with the men who made the West." This means a screen as wide as the Oregon Trail, technically superb Technicolor, expensive cranes to boost its enormous cameras anywhere they want to go, and in general everything that the little men with the big checks...
...them bristling with propaganda. In Nabucco, for example, the "Va, pensiero" chorus was a call to arms that was later sung by Garibaldi's army. Italian opera audiences, quick to recognize the freedom slogans Verdi managed to slip past the Austrian censors, often erupted into flag-waving demonstrations. "Viva Verdi," scrawled on walls up and down the peninsula, became the rallying cry for revolt...
...Pontiff's visit at the downtown Municipal Sanitation Center. "One should not be ashamed of one's work," the Pope told them solemnly. "What would our city be like if it were not for work like yours that keeps it clean?" The garbagemen shouted back, "Viva il Papa!" Then two days later they answered his rhetoric by going on strike, leaving mountains of refuse all over Rome...
...VIVA MARIA! Some camera magic by French Cinematographer Henri Decae helps Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot inflame the peasantry in Louis Malle's higgledy-piggledy farce about a pair of strip queens involved in a Central American revolution...
...Bravo, bravo, bravo for your excellent cover story on Spain [Jan. 21] from an American liberal who is very proud to say: Viva España y viva Franco...