Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side of the altar (Michelangelo called them lavamani, or washrooms). One of these lavamani had traces of various 16th century sketches under its old whitewash. The other had a trap door in its floor leading to a long, narrow storeroom. Perhaps, Dal Poggetto thought, the storeroom could become another exit to the street. But before digging into the walls, he assigned Restorer Giovannoni to take "soundings" by scratching away a few test layers of whitewash...
Only one problem now remains for Dal Poggetto. Since the general public cannot be let into the storeroom containing the drawings (the space is too confined, the risk of damage too large), he will have to find yet another exit-corridor from the Medici tombs. And for the moment, there seems to be none...
...finally the Moro government made its exit. "I have tried to avoid an alarming pause in the administration of power," said Moro, adding that he could no longer withstand the opposition he received. Without even bothering to call the confidence vote-defeat was, after all, a certainty-the Premier held a crisp last meeting with his Cabinet, then set off in his blue Alfa Romeo to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale Palace. There Moro requested the showdown that he had maneuvered for weeks to avoid and that he had called "not our choice...
...kind of dichotomy between writing and academic communities. So it will be intriguing to see what happens when everyone gets together this weekend--flirting and scratching, that kind of thing. The Affair's board seems to have mixed feelings about its relationship to academe. Bill Corbett, of Fire Exit magazine, offered a mock-charitable smile that it's "lovely of Harvard University to promote this thing," while Jane Barnes of Dark Horse sounded relieved by its freedom from scholarly "corruption." On the other hand, Stratis Haviaras, who takes care of Lamont's Poetry Room, claims that when there...
...Exit Dreben...