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Padre, Padrone. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's entrancing film about the loam-to-letters life of a bestselling Sardinian author from humble peasant origins provides the most convincing evidence since Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" of the resilient vitality in Italian cinema, the recent excesses of Fellini, Antonioni, et al notwithstanding. The Taviani brothers' first film to receive international attention, it features a host of mind-gripping sequences destined to set apart "Padre, Padrone" as one of the most important films to cross the Atlantic in the late 1970s. To name only two: the unforgettable series of shots capturing...
...responsible for food inflation. Since the early 1950s, they have received only 40? to 45? of every dollar that the shopper spends for food. Last year farmers collected $56.5 billion for their products, but it cost an additional $59 billion for labor-packinghouse workers, store clerks, waiters, et al.-to get those products from the farm to the table at home or in restaurants. Operating expenses for food retailers have been rising particularly fast. One major chain, Supermarkets General (Pathmark), expects labor, energy and tax outlays to swell about 10% each. Yet supermarket managers complain that competition is so keen...
...best parts of the show involve the doctors. Randy Clark and Samuel Krisch save the first act with their hilarious portrayal of pere et fils Diafoirus. Krisch is particularly funny as the nerdy med student, and he was grotesquely amusing as he made bungling advances to Angelique...
...libraries. Each volume is about 16 in. high, 24 in. across when opened, and contains either 648 or 634 pages. Americans, who by and large have given up the study of Latin, may be put off by the fact that all copies begin, "In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram...
Padre, Padrone. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's entrancing film about the loam-to-letters life of a bestselling Sardinian author from humble peasant origins provides the most convincing evidence since Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" of the resilient vitality in Italian cinema, the recent excesses of Fellini, Antonioni, et al. notwithstanding. The Taviani brothers' first film to receive international attention, it features a host of mind-gripping sequences destined to set apart "Padre, Padrone" as one of the most important films to cross the Atlantic in the late 1970s. To name only two: the unforgettable series of shots capturing...