Word: bolognas
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...mayors came to power with lavish promises and high hopes of curing unemployment, housing shortages and a host of other blights that bedevil Italian urban centers. A model government in Bologna, successfully run by Communists since 1945, had inspired millions of voters to believe that the Communists were brilliant city managers. Riding the wave of that single reputation, the party hoped to produce showpiece regimes that would help catapult the Communists to national power by the sheer force of local example...
...much depth to his character, or to the story. Schneider is a novelist, the kind who writes 300 pages of a book without knowing where it's going, only partially because he's distracted by the loss of his wife. His brother Leo (impressively played by Joe Bologna) fixes him up with many women as he steps out into the world again, including a ghastly disco queen named Bambi. For George Schneider, chapter two in his life needs drastic revision unitl he catches up with Jennie McClaine, Little known New York actress. Convincing her that "nothing is inevitable because dates...
...Bologna and Harper carry on the affair that we expect them to have with searing honesty and much acting skill. It is the one believable exchange in a movie whose humor usually shortchanges its central characters. Simon must be admired for daring to share so openly with the public, but he's gone past the line of accessibility. He's inviting us into the bedroom of his mind, and it's an uncalled for invasion of privacy...
Giorgio Vasari was the Boswell of the 16th century art world. He was also its Sammy Glick. As a painter and architect he outhustled many of his betters for commissions in the courts of Florence, Rome, Naples and Bologna. Vasari had an inflated opinion of his talent as a painter, so it is something of an irony that he is remembered chiefly for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, an informal, even gossipy collection of biographical studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston...
...their early 40s who are lured by names like Aston Martin, Maserati, Ferrari and Lamborghini that whisper freedom and promise sybaritic luxury. Oil-rich Arabs are big buyers: a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family this year paid $114,000 for two Lamborghini Countach-Ss lovingly built in Bologna. Sheiks and wealthy Japanese are queuing up to buy Aston Martin's wedge-shaped, futuristic, four-door Lagonda, currently $87,000 and sold out until 1982. After the legendary James Bond, the British company's most famous customer is probably Prince Charles, who tools around London...