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...tune is more than nice in the song "Pronto Monto," the title song of the album. The song is in French, very clear schoolbook French, with an English translation generously supplied on the sleeve. Along with the haunting words ("Such sad dreams/Troubling my sleep with that howl/Farewells must be but au revoirs"), and a charming french cabaret flavor, "Pronto Monto" is all variety. There's a brief transition to disco at the end of the song, French disco, and mysterious strains of mandolin, violin and horn floating in and out of the music. "Pronto Monto" embodies everything good about...
Ominously, the kind of civil disobedience that has taken root in Turin is beginning to spread all across northern Italy. In Milan, protesters are refusing to pay increases in rents, bus fares and schoolbook charges. In nearby Monza last week, Pietro Russolillo, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, dramatically drove up to the police station to turn himself in for not paying the una tantum, or onetime surtax that the Rumor government imposed on 12 million cars. "I am ready to pay ten times the amount," declared Russolillo with a flourish, "but first you must persuade me that the money will...
...hungrily emptied. At the same time, even in the midst of their sorest travails. Troell's characters have a strength which allows for joyous conceits: the first shot of Kristina, lounging and playing on a swing while Oscar comes to court her, or Robert, excited by a natural sciences schoolbook, floating cap and boots down a stream to check out its fluidity. And of course, the best images of all chart the characters' growth. Flower petals in a cut-glass cup spill over during Kristina's first housewifely drudgery. Kari Oscar, while his entire family (except for his own mother...
MEET GEORGE WASHINGTON (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part of Project 20, this show will try to breathe some life and substance into the dehumanized schoolbook image of our first President...
...story begins slowly. The author tries too hard to achieve a sense of ominous anticipation from various people's warnings and premonitions. Manchester approaches Dallas and the underpass near the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building at an excruciatingly slow pace and with innumerable sidetrips. But then the horrendous drama takes hold of the reader all over again. It is not so much that Manchester's details bring new significance to the event; it is rather that the event itself seems to infuse even the most unimportant detail with meaning...