Word: flaminio
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...ROME Goody Music is Rome's best-stocked venue for vinyl. Hidden away behind the central Piazzale Flaminio on Via Cesare Beccaria, the store has catered to vinyl fiends for over 25 years. The shop deals mainly in house, hip-hop and soul, and twice a week hosts a DJ school where wannabe mixmasters can learn their cuts. "Somebody walks in here, and when he leaves he can do a rave for 20,000 people," boasts owner Claudio Donato...
...University of Bologna: "The Communist Party is now so far away from the Soviet Union that one can no longer speak of a possible break-the break has already taken place." That view may go too far, but even some of the Communists' opponents agree. Said Flaminio Piccoli, secretary-general of Italy's Christian Democrats: "The Communist Party has the courage of truth and has rendered a great service to democracy...
...Eurocommunism coming to power in the NATO alliance. The defeat also raised the prospect of an intraparty challenge to Berlinguer's leadership, since it appeared to be a repudiation of his gradualist "historic compromise" strategy of joining the government in a national alliance with the centrist parties. Said Flaminio Piccoli, president of the Christian Democrats: "The Communist Party has lost its referendum on entering the government...
...these intuitive and somewhat pat perceptions, nagging self-doubts dangle at the end of each memoir. But instead of developing their restive psyches, Prose disappointingly cuts the players short. Armanda the dwarf, for example, acknowledges the tension that arises from Flaminio's perfect typecasting, from his refusal to recognize her private soul. But the plot does not allow time for her to develop potential feelings of self-worth that can replace an identity culled from the glory of the stage. Instead, her memoir trails off in confusion, with a lame admission to Flamino that "I myself was never quite sure...
Isabella is the only one who comes close to self-fulfillment. She realizes that perhaps it is possible to infuse creativity into her roles, a creativity balanced between Flaminio's self-consuming and haphazard improvisation and Francesco's constricting memorization. She realizes that her talents have been developed as self-protection, not self-expression, as a shield against her naturally unbounded generosity, a self-destructive and explosive emotion which often vented itself in endless hours of duck-like squawking. But the best she can do, speaking from the wrong side of the heavenly gates, is whisper her confession into another...