Word: croce
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...Borghese Park, and the San Lorenzo quarter, where the streets hum with university student life. You'll cross the Tiber by the Sublicio Bridge. Before reaching the final stop near the National Gallery of Modern Art, the bus passes such landmarks as the Colosseum, the ancient church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, and the 1st century pyramid built as a tomb by a magistrate with dreams of grandeur. Cost: $1.20, expires after 75 min. Journey time: about...
Most influential philosopher or thinker: Benedetto Croce...
...Astaire-Rogers: "He gives her class. She gives him sex." Truth to tell, Fred gave Ginger more class than she gave him sex. Rogers was a showbiz cutie, just 21 when they were first paired (he was 33), and radiating healthy self-awareness more than eroticism; as Arlene Croce wrote in her vibrantly evocative critique "The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book," Ginger was "like a clever puppy who knows it's being watched." And, except metaphorically, there was no sex in their films; they typically played lovers who never got to kiss (except in the dream dance in "Carefree...
...gestures are indeed larger, more precise and graceful, than hers. But ultimately that doesn't trouble me. The story of the films is one of aristocratic Fred elevating shopgirl Ginger to his level, and of Ginger bringing Fred down to hers; each brings out the best in the other. Croce says of the team: "They weren't Alfred [Lunt] and Lynn [Fontanne] and they weren't Noel [Coward] and Gertie [Lawrence]; they were the two most divinely usual people in the history of movies." If that's the case, then Ginger is at the soul of the movie...
...Philadelphia 76ers star guard and hopeful hip-hop artist ALLEN IVERSON leads the league in steals per game, but it seems he had some Sixers competition. Last week it was revealed that John Croce, the 76ers' strength-and-conditioning coach and younger brother of team co-owner Pat Croce, had resigned from the team in January after a locker-room videotape showed him executing a dunk in Iverson's pants pockets for spare cash. (Iverson was not in the pants at the time.) Video cameras had been installed after players complained of missing cash. "I felt sick, physically sick," said...