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...subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
...hollow-cheeked Lara still lives his legend, tapping out tunes,for arrangers to orchestrate, keeping up his floor show at the Capri nightclub and his Lírico revues. His soft piano-playing in a darkened room with a single soft light playing on his pinched face is still the most irresistible thing in Mexican entertainment. The royalties roll in, and he spends them expertly...
Last year a vacationing Italian engineer and nobleman dragged his gaze away from Capri's ubiquitous Bikini bathing suits long enough to notice some eels at play. Those particular eels, thought the Marchese Domingo de Mistura, need fresh water. Their presence was an unmistakable sign that there must be fresh-water springs under the island. With little more than that to go on, Mistura persuaded local and Italian officials to help him drill a well. Last week, after five months of digging through folds of hard rock near Anacapri, he struck fresh water at a point 171 feet below...
Into Sunny Honeymoon Italy's Alberto Moravia pours the heady wine of love and politics. Married two days and honeymooning on Capri, an increasingly testy husband finds his Communist bride continually fending him off. Worse still, she shows an easy sense of comradeship with a fellow party worker they meet on the island. Just when the unhappy husband has decided that he and his wife are politically incompatible, a helpful bolt of summer lightning melts her lovingly in his arms...