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...former Screen Bombshell Anita Ekberg, la vita is no longer very dolce. Bulkier than in those fair-weather days in 1960 when she frolicked in Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini's camera, the former Miss Sweden has been keeping house in the Alban Hills south of Rome. Barely keeping it, that is. The actress, who has not been seen much by U.S. audiences since Fangs of the Living Dead (1973), has been robbed twice in the past few years. To make matters worse, a local court last month ordered the cottage vacated. But until the eviction takes effect some...
...that moment, Caroline wants to get this attractive intellectual to bed. Ivan is in no hurry; he charms and tantalizes her with food, wine and graceful erudition. Rather than toss coins in a fountain, he guides her to the Campidoglio to see the caged she-wolf, symbol of the mythical beast that suckled Romulus and Remus. The animal, "glowering from slate-gray eyes that looked at once treacherous and ready to weep," suddenly howls in their faces...
That decision did not come easily. Uninterested in going into his father's soda-fountain equipment business and intrigued by the "tough traditions" of the Marines, he had signed up fresh out of his suburban Detroit high school. He served first as a base electrician at Camp Lejeune, N.C., then was transferred to El Toro in 1973 to work on fighter planes - F-4s, A6s, Harriers. He switched to his present assignment...
...mother Rose, Joan Copeland is a fountain of humor, a river of love, and a rock of survival, despite occasional attacks of frayed nerves. Perhaps Miller's real time machine is memory and its curving flight into the distant past of one's fledgling manhood...
...each of Barragán's designs his public spaces achieve that degree of serenity which only flowing or still water can bestow. In Las Arboledas, developed as a residential community for horse lovers, he installed fountains, pools and a brimming watering trough as long as a lake, whose still surface reflects the thickly set eucalyptus trees. In another subdivision devoted to horsemen, Barragán converted two abandoned horse troughs into a heroically scaled fountain: a massive red earth stucco wall carries an aqueduct that pours water into the pool, all set off by a long pink stucco wall that makes...