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...some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made of this material." One journalist wrote, "Today we sell Nazi black, tomorrow it can be SS green...
Right now, one of the few things relieving some of the pressure on the Mexican government seems to be a widespread attitude of ni modo, a fatalist mood of "nothing can be done about it." Even labor unions are not optimistic about getting big wage increases. They had been asking for a 50% hike but probably will get only 20% at best, even though inflation has chopped the buying power of the average worker by 60%. Working union members seem happy enough just to have jobs. Two weeks ago, attempts to get a general strike off the ground fizzled. While...
...Above Suspicion, a complex, unsettling study of a high police official who perversely becomes a killer but is unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although he broke with the Communist Party in 1956, Petri filmed cerebral fables intertwining politics and psychosis (The Tenth Victim, Todo Modo) that he considered propaganda for the oppressed. He acknowledged, however, that he craftily "coated the pill" with swift plots, kinky surfaces and a fidgety mosaic style...
...movie theaters round the country the most talked-about new film is Todo Modo (In Every Way), a surrealistic thriller built around a savage portrayal of the Christian Democratic leadership, including Aldo Moro, the country's Premier. In one scene, Marcello Mastroianni, playing a satanic priest, conducts a doom-laden spiritual retreat for the Christian Democratic chiefs, and snarls at them: "After 30 years in power, how much longer do you really think you have? You are all dead, can't you understand? Dead...
Magister atque sui quattuor discipuli narraverunt fabulam de Daimone, filio regis Herakleiae, qui peregrinatus est per mare Aegeum. Contra piratas ac serpentes maritimos pugnavit, et implicatus est cum deis, et centauris, et equis alatis. Case dixit: "Postremo erat magna disputatio de questione num Daimon deberet moriri in tempestate modo herois. Discipuli arguerunt Dai-monem dignum esse ut viveret...