Word: capris
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...people." On Sunday, the night before the 23,629-ton Achille Lauro reached Alexandria, they celebrated the 59th birthday of Marilyn Klinghoffer of Manhattan. It had been her idea that they should all take the eleven-day cruise from Genoa to Naples, Alexandria, Port Said, Ashdod, Limassol, Rhodes, Piraeus, Capri and back to Genoa...
...California's Santa Monica Mountains. To the west there is a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean; to the east, the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. Says Architecture Critic Reyner Banham of the site: "Not since the Roman emperors built their summer villas on the isle of Capri has there been an opportunity like this...
Moravia's ostensible subject is suicide. His 27-year-old Italian hero, Lucio, is headed for Capri on holiday in 1934, the fateful year that was Mussolini's twelfth in power and Hitler's first. On the boat from Naples to the island, the young anti-Fascist asks himself: "Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?" At that moment his eyes lock with those of a German tourist, a teen-age girl who transfixes him with a pleading, desperate look. Lightning strikes. The girl, Beate, is accompanied by a husband as wickedly...
Chia's bulgy operatic figures pose like Michelangelos and flourish their tiny daggers at frantic women. He will take a tourist postcard view of the Grotta Azzurra in Capri, render it big, add a floating Chagall girl upside down, add a few written phrases in the manner of '20s Mird, and title the whole pasticcio thus: In Strange and Gloomy Waters If a White Dot Shines If a Child Jumps I Will Approach Her Flight, 1979. Chia's visions may not be very deep, but nobody could accuse him of having a defective swizzle stick...
...whether to wear it, but, rather, how much of it should you wear." To be sure, lame jumpsuits and sequined evening gowns have been around since Cher was in knickers. For Dede Dolce, 43, a mother of three teenagers from Culver City, Calif., metallics recall the days of sequined Capri pants and speckled harlequin glasses. Gazing into the glittering windows of Saks in Beverly Hills, Dolce muses: "The whole thing reminds me of Palm Springs à la 1950." But the current gilt trip, according to Mirabella, began in the spring of 1980 with French Designer Yves Saint Laurent...