Word: angelos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When he saw a painting of Medusa in Florence he called it "the head of a Madonna created by purgatory." He made a paper-cutout version of the Medusa's head, and pasted it onto a page in conjunction with a printed view of the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome...
...Died. Angelo Rizzoli, 80, Italian publisher who left a Milan orphanage at 17 to become a printer, built a publishing empire encompassing ten weekly magazines (20 million readers), became a film producer and sponsored more than 150 films by such leading directors as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert) and Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita); of complications from gall bladder disease; in Milan...
From the Back. Not everybody agrees on the importance of the works. Part of the dissent is ideological. The count's title was bestowed on him by Mussolini after he made a politic gift of several statues and other art objects to the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome. Part is sheer Italian snobbery. Contini-Bonacossi was the son of peasants, who made his fortune in South America by methods that are still muffled in obscurity. When he returned to Florence, he set himself up as an art dealer and put his collection together between...
...Angelo and Los Angeles' Eleanor Hoover, who was moved to write...
Much of the nation's economic strength comes from raising productivity in the classic way, by replacing men with machines. The New York Port Authority, for example, uses a mechanical man, dubbed Angelo, to direct traffic around construction on the George Washington Bridge. A single guard at a huge console in the lobby of Manhattan's Pan American Building is able to keep track of elevators and, through a closed-circuit TV, watch all entrances and exits to the building...