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Generazione Bruciata. In the early days, before World War II, Romilda helped support her daughters by giving piano lessons in Pozzuoli and playing in local cafés. Sophia's grandfather-who now at 78 struts about town in the warmth of his magic celebrity-was then a cannon maker at the local arms factory. In the four-room family flat, nine people slept in one bedroom; Sophia shared a bed with her grandmother, grandfather and an aunt...
India and Pakistan, deadly rivals, were engaged in a benign competition: each was trying to outdo the other in the warmth of its greetings to Visitor Jacqueline Kennedy-and each had obviously decided that the way to her heart was through her fondness for animals. Indeed, Jackie must have thought at times last week that she was visiting an Asian menagerie...
...announced a new policy of "no interview" to sportswriters, cursed out and threatened to slug U.P.I. Columnist Oscar Fraley, refused to pose for a photograph with Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby. Said TV's longtime "Voice of the Yankees" Mel Allen: "Maris has a lot to learn about warmth, appreciation, graciousness, and that sort of thing...
Through a Glass Darkly. Sweden's icily intelligent Ingmar Bergman infuses unexpected warmth of feeling into a darkly metaphysical drama that depicts the birth of God in the form of an enormous spider...
...capacity to touch the heart is not a large capacity, not a teeming oceanic love of all mankind. But it is enough to melt the ice in his irony and to lend his humor a kindly glow. It also pumps some warm blood into his characters, and the warmth has relaxed and inspired his actors: seldom has one film offered four performances of comparable quality...