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...GREAT GRAPPA...
...welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...
...case of sour grappa? Possibly. The figures paid for books are impressive, but to recoup a multimillion-dollar investment today, paperback publishers must tout their products like new cars. Record-sale publicity is one way. And, of course, there are gimmicks and advertising blitzes for the soon-to-be-made-into-a-major-motion-picture that augment the hard-sell paperback commercials on radio...
market in much the same way. Before 1970, liquor stores used to stock tequila -if they carried it at all-on a back shelf alongside ouzo and grappa. In the past five years, however, annual imports have increased more than 400%; where only a handful of brands were available north of the border ten years ago, some 250 labels are now registered, accounting for total yearly sales of more than 5 million gallons. Says an industry newsletter: "Tequila...
...Working with Lewis John Carlino's spare script, Director Martin Ritt has fashioned a film like grappa, with a raw kick and a bitter aftertaste. Seldom has a movie so resembled its characters. Like them, it has a primitive volatility, churning from glee to fury in the space of a second. Like them, it has aspects of a legend that has outlived its time. Like them, it strains for respectability-and never makes it. For all its sober posture, the film is hooked on its participants. It stays too long at the graphic garroting; it details too lovingly...