Consider this a spoiler. Whitaker's warning. I'm not sure exactly how to put this, but not all of the content of this review is as funny as a blind person slipping on a banana skin. And I say that advisedly. #9"Today, I would rather stick a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger than pick up a drin...
• قرأت مسرحية "6 شخصيات تبحث عن مؤلف" وهي من روائع المسرح الإيطالي .. لأن الرئيس المصري جمال عبد الناصر ذكرها في كتابه "فلسفة الثورة" .. وهذه القصة هي للشاعر الإيطالي الكبير (( لويدجي بيراندلو ))..• وكتب عبد الناصر حين تذكر هذه القصة: "إن ظروف التاريخ مليئة بالأبطال الذين صنعوا لأنفسهم أدوار بطو...
as Signora Barmis had suggested. For the housewarming he invited all the best-known musicians and music critics of Rome for a piano recital of music from the opera The New Colony, composed by the young Maestro Aldo di Marco. The composer’s name drew a blank with everyone. All anyone knew was that...
There are two full-length, life-size modern portraits of a young man and a young woman dressed as Henry IV and Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. HAROLD, LANDOLF, ORDULF, and BERTOLD—wearing the costumes of eleventh-century German knights—enter. LANDOLF Next—the throne room! HAROLD The throne room...
He was delirious. "The first symptoms of cerebral fever," the doctors had said, and these words were repeated by all his fellow office workers as they returned in groups of two or three from the asylum where they had gone to visit him. It seemed that as they passed the new...
But, amid all the antiques, two life-size modern portraits in oils stand out on the back wall, placed just above floor level on a projecting ledge of carved wood that runs the whole length of the wall and is broad enough to sit on like a bench. They are placed on either side of a throne that inte...
Giunio Falci regarding her son Silvio, who had been blind for about a year. She had had him examined at home by the most famous oculists in Italy and abroad, and all of them had told her that he was suffering from incurable glaucoma. Dr. Giunio Falci had recently gained the position of director o...