Word: biondo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Work. Hazelwood's proposed tax stands at $5.54 per $100 of property assessed at 30% of valuation. For the owner of a $15,000 house, this would come to $249.30, up from $234.90 last year. "Some of my neighbors are out of work," says Theodore J. Biondo, an aircraft engineer who heads a local parents' group. "They're wondering if they can keep their houses at all, so they're not anxious to vote more taxes on them." The board will resubmit the same tax levy on Oct. 21, and if it is rejected, close...
...bequest to Florence is particularly remarkable for its early-Renaissance works, of which all too few survive. Of the best among them is a St. John the Baptist by the early Florentine master Giovanni del Biondo. The saint's grim, forbidding mien reflects the panic of religious doom that fell on Tuscany at the time of the plague, but the man stands, feet implacably planted athwart the body of Herod, in symbolic triumph. With the gift of Contini-Bona-cossi's St. Jerome, Florence will have one of the half-dozen finest small Bellinis to be seen anywhere...