Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...installation of the doors. Art Critic Mario Salmi, vice president of the government's Superior Council of Fine Arts, promptly and publicly denounced Greco's work. "It is like inserting a modern canto into The Divine Comedy," he complained, and resigned his post. Another leading antiquarian, Giorgio Bassani, described the doors as "outrageous, awkward, pseudo modern." Among the doors' defenders was Orvieto's bishop, Monsignor Virginio Dondeo, who contended that "each century should make its contribution to the cathedral...
...with necklines that do not stop till they hit the waist. Bill Blass settles for the double hemline for daywear and pulls out all stops at night with a series of multilevel chiffon dresses, plus some crepes with hems that look more like jack-o'-lanterns' teeth. Giorgio di Sant'Angelo uses raw, unfinished leather in midi skirts that end up ragged, jagged, and almost Neanderthal in effect. Mollie Parnis lets her hems hang any old way, and does most of her exposing higher up, in necklines that gape open in V's, scallops, horseshoes...