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...life myth," i. e. Citizen Kane ), and he moves in at the Doctor's place where very strange things start to happen, strange powers begin to exert themselves (i. e. Dracula ). Bauer engages the unsuspecting youth in a lot of bizarre psychosexual games with his wife Francesca. (Adriana Asti), who is voluptuous and ostensibly psychotic. Sontag gives almost everything in clear, stagey medium shots (except for a few subjective long tracks and closeups to get us involved with the younger couple). The Bauers perform along the horizontal axis of this frame most of their contradictory scenes, confrontations and seductions. Tomas...
...more swimming pools than any other ship (three each for adults and children-all outdoors and heated) and more art than several substantial museums. It has 30 bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when it returns to Genoa...
...than $3,000 a year (from a high of $8,000). He piled up $7,000 of debts, mostly loans that his parents made for him from the Kilgore National Bank. He took to such money-saving devices as playing classical music for his supper in Manhattan's Asti Restaurant...
...Petri Wine Co., he more than fulfilled the vintners' expectations. For a reported $16 million, he bought National Distillers' famed old Italian Swiss Colony Wine Co., the nation's third largest producer of domestic wines. In the deal, Petri acquired Italian Swiss's wineries at Asti, Lodi, and Clovis, Calif., bottling plants at Chicago and Fairview, N.J., New York's Gambarelli & Davitto distributing organization, and one of the best-known labels on the domestic vine. At one leap, Petri went from fifth to first place among U.S. vintners, with a total capacity of 46 million...
When Italian officers put away their glittering swords and appear at cafe tables in Sam Browne belts, then tourists know that maneuvers are beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference...