Word: fuga
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...great but the results were worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert E Flat Mass, No. 6, madrigals by Schein, Morley, and Monteverdi, the Gabrielli In Eclesiis, Giuseppe Sarti's Fuga a otto voci reali, and Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
...Fuga. Any electricity generated by this low-voltage Italian drama can be traced to Anouk Aimée, playing an interior decorator who is more beautiful than most, and more manly too. Anouk's boldest designs are reserved for Giovanna Ralli, a newer exotic, who smartly assumes the attitudes of a neurotic young matron beset by conventional woes. Her parents are a wretchedly selfish pair; she cannot concentrate on raising her young son; and her physicist husband is so preoccupied with the mysteries of nuclear fission that he seldom wonders what his wife thinks. Giovanna consults an analyst...
Making his feature-film debut with La Fuga (The Flight), Director Paolo Spinola brings off one unabashedly lesbian love scene, but mostly his camera composes a critical essay on wealth, boredom, lovers, luxury flats, all the icons of fashionable corruption that Italian moviemakers love to hate. The rest of the movie is so elliptical that Giovanna's "tragic death," presumably by suicide, is never explained, and cues the physicist to recall more of her unhappy history in flashbacks pressed from a charred diary. Sad to say, the dead wife's darker secrets turn out to be less interesting...
...parties, ranging from the far right to the far left. But he soon recaptured his old magic with the crowds. Until a few weeks ago, newspapers ignored his campaign and poked fun at him. On the anniversary of his resignation, S?o Paulo papers headlined it as Dia da Fuga, day of flight. But J?nio told a cheering crowd that election day, Oct. 7, will be Dia da Forra, day of redress. And slowly he has gained ground, especially among the lower classes, where his promises of economic reform and clean government strike home. He no longer talks about...
...even bad." Later, when Congress, piqued by anti-U.S. riots in Puerto Rico, briefly considered an independence bill that would have pushed the island outside U.S. tariff walls, Muñoz had switched his views so much that he likened the bill to the Latin American ley de fuga-the custom of freeing a prisoner and shooting him in the back "while he escapes...