Word: barberini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Funny. Whitehall officials have often joked that Britain might some day become a member of the Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and that some London civil servants might exchange their bowlers for Arab burnooses. Last week, at Rome's baroque Palazzo Barberini, Wilson in all seriousness argued before his Common Market colleagues that "it is no longer a humorous matter to point out that in a few years there is a strong possibility that Britain could become a member of OPEC...
...fall; when Rome falls, so will the world." So said the Venerable Bede in awe 1,200 years ago, at the 1st century's most famed amphitheater. The Colosseum, though battered by earthquakes and ruthlessly despoiled by late Renaissance builders who stole its facing stones for the Farnese, Barberini and Venezia palaces, has long been an image of megalithic permanence. Not any more. Last week Roman authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the Colosseum to visitors indefinitely...