Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When she was a child, Isabella Rossellini made up her mind not to be an actress like Mommy or a film director like Daddy. She wanted to be a circus ringmaster. Now, at age 24, the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini is still hung up on rings-only these house a different breed of cat. As a reporter for Italian television, Isabella has just finished interviewing 40 U.S. boxers -including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis-for an upcoming six-hour special on the history of the sport. "I used to think boxers were...
Open City. The story behind this movie is as remarkable as the film itself--Roberto Rossellini made it while the Germans still occupied Rome in 1945. The plot anticipates the Historic Compromise; a priest and a Communist partisan cooperate to combat fascism...
...charges against the mercenaries ranged from specific atrocities (murder, assault, arson, sabotage, rape and robbery) to vague accusations of "meeting with the traitor Holden Roberto" (head of the defeated National Front for the Liberation of Angola−F.N.L.A.). The "crime" of being a mercenary, charged against all 13 defendants, is not denned in Angolan law, but most foreign observers were impressed by at least the surface fairness of the proceedings...
...squad. He said that Callan "told me that if I didn't do it I'd be joining the victims." McKenzie's defense was directly challenged by one prosecution witness, a former F.N.L.A. soldier, who testified that both Callan and McKenzie had forced a group of Roberto's troops to strip naked. The witness claimed that Callan said, "When I count one, two, three−run"−and that both the colonel and McKenzie had opened fire on the fleeing men. "Lying bastard," growled McKenzie from his wheelchair in the dock...
Even with the dearth of facilities, Rindge has some track stars. One of them, Roberto E. Cooper holds the indoor high jump record for Massachusetts schoolboys, and won the Class D high jumping championships this year...