Word: colonna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lobbyists, led by one of Tunisia's two Senators, Antoine Colonna, held a press conference crackling with angry voltage. Dr. Jean Tremsal, top municipal officer of Tunis, declared: "Frenchmen in Tunis do not recognize any agreements which dispose of their fate and their future and that of their children and grandchildren." Cried another lobbyist: "We cannot accept. We will defend ourselves, we will defend France in spite of herself...
Sinatra's wild reception was the latest-and biggest-in a series of triumphal visitations by U.S. stars that began last July. The Artie Shaw-Jerry Colonna-Ella Fitzgerald-Buddy Rich troupe, which grossed a record-breaking $103,500, came first. Others followed fast. Drummer Gene Krupa was drummed in by a corps of Aussie drummers beating out Sing, Sing, Sing. Crooner Johnnie Ray touched off the wildest teen-age hysteria in Australian history. Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee was condemned by both the Baptist and Roman Catholic churches. Crooner Nat "King" Cole summed it up: ""Boy, no artist...
14th Century Rome (Bettina Colonna, by Michel Durafour; Bobbs-Merrill). A souped-up account of the meteoric political rise and fall of Cola di Rienzo (fact), and how lovely, ruthless Bettina won and lost him (fiction), enlivened by pre-Renaissance skulduggery and dalliance...
During the Dark Ages, Fortuna's temples were looted down to their bones. Even their marble facings were carted away for building material. Gradually the town of Palestrina and the feudal stronghold of the Colonna family spread over the massive remains, effectively hiding them from archeologists. In 1944, Allied bombings peeled away the medieval buildings. When the war ended, Palestrina was a wreck, but the lower parts of Fortuna's temple lay almost undamaged under heaps of rubble...
...plenty to delight youngsters, and there are flashes of cartooning ingenuity that should appeal to grownups. Funniest sequence: the famed mad tea party, which proves rollicking, not out of fidelity to Carroll, but because the Mad Hatter and the March Hare are faithful to Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna, who speak the roles...