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...World War II decade in a battered, guiltridden Italy, he was in the vanguard of the New Realism, and thereby a prominent figure under attack by his country's outraged government, clergy and film critics. In critical circles outside Italy, his cinematic results were considered brilliant (Shoeshine, 1946; Bicycle Thief, 1948; Umberto D, 1950); the ensuing wrath he incurred because of these disturbing documents of the hopelessness of Italy's human environment was equally as strong...
...results were at best fluff (Marriage-Italian Style), more frequently flubs (Woman Times Seven, The Condemned of Altond). Now, after more than a decade of indifferent and impersonal work, De Sica has returned to form. If The Garden of the Finzi-Continis does not fully rival The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D., it is good enough to stand comparison with them...
Still, it remains to be seen if the moral appeal implicit in this book will evoke a response from "the land of the thief and the home of the slave," as DuBois called it; partly because, as an Indian woman who had been on Alcatraz told me recently, "People are brought up with the idea that all these things the white people have done to the Indians was done a long time ago. A lot of people don't realize that it's still going...
...used ambiguously or as a cover term for both, tends to be the more frequent, and can be substituted for the marked member. Thus the plural is more marked than the singular, since, for example, the singular can be used for plural reference (many a horse horse-thief), but not the other way around. Markedness is one of the fundamental principles which govern the organization of the internal economics of all human languages...
...safety. The ad, which opens with a menacing, silhouetted attacker, is in the form of a long letter from Old American President Joseph McGee Jr. It leaves no nightmare untouched as it warns readers of the dangers of "being mugged, pushed down a flight of stairs by a fleeing thief, or shoved off a curb by a roaming gang of toughs." At a cost of $12 a year, a policyholder injured in a crime of violence can collect up to $5,250 to cover medical expenses. If the insured is killed, Old American will pay his beneficiary...