Word: bologna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taste Like Burrs. In Italy, the 18th century resisted generalization. Florentine painting had collapsed, never to revive, and activity was split among several centers: Rome, Venice, Turin, Bologna and Naples. There was no broad direction of style. The artists worked more and more outside Italy, pursuing foreign commissions and coming back with the seeds of foreign taste sticking to them like burrs. As a result, the range of the period was astonishing; it ran from Magnasco's turbid compositions of raggedy monks to the grandeur and sun-washed transparency of Tiepolo's Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo, from Pier...
...months after the accident, when the little sub was raised and drained, scientists noticed that the six bologna sandwiches, two apples and two thermoses of bouillon seemed remarkably well-preserved-even though they were soaked in sea water. Intrigued, a four-man team led by Microbiologist Holger Jannasch at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ran tests on the lunches ranging from simple tasting to detailed lab analysis. Their conclusion: the apples were about as well-preserved as if they had been kept in a refrigerator while the rest of the food had fared far better than that...
...tells how he first became aware last year that he was under attack from "a squadron of enraged Amazons, an honor guard of revolutionary vaginas." He admits to naiveté in visualizing his female adversaries as "thin college ladies with eyeglasses, no-nonsense features, mouths thin as bologna slices, a babe in one arm, a hatchet in the other, gray eyes bright with balefire." When he protests to chic Radical Chick Gloria Steinem that he doesn't know what Women's Lib has against him. she tells him tartly: "You might try reading your books some day." Manhattan...
People's Pollock. Probably the best exponent of Italy's low-profile brand of Communism is Bologna's Mayor Renato Zangheri, a party "liberal," economist and intellectual who is regarded as something of a Marxist Medici even by nonCommunists. Since July, when he became the latest Red mayor of Bologna, Zangheri has insisted on keeping his University of Bologna professorship, on wearing his academic tweeds, and on making over much of the municipal government in his eclectic but thoughtful style. Among the 17th century frescoes in the Palazzo D'Accursio, he has hung a favorite Jackson...
Zangheri's heresies-he regularly chews out the Soviets for suppressing intellectual freedom-might leave voters confused about whether he is really a Communist at all. But it hardly matters; on ballots, the party identifies itself as the Two Towers, after a Bologna landmark. The word "Communist" never even appears...