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...language alone. As played by a blond and wild-eyed Giorgio Albertazzi (who was the mysterious lover in Last Year at Marienbad), Rome's Hamlet looks strikingly like the late James Dean. He wears tight slacks and a turtleneck sweater, while the women wear vague gowns of no particular century in an attempt to universalize the audience's sense of time. King Hamlet's ghost is merely an offstage voice from the collective unconscious, but Freud's ghost has the free run of Elsinore: whenever Hamlet delivers a soliloquy, he takes refuge in a large hole...
When Italy's Pietro Nenni was asked last year what price he demanded in return for supporting a center-left coalition government, the old Socialist leader growled: "The head of Giorgio Valerio." The head belongs to the aristocratic managing director of Societa Edison, then Italy's largest public utility holding company. Nenni got his price-the country's power industry was nationalized-but Giorgio Valerio kept his head, and is busy proving that he knows very well...
...Confidence. For tall, aloof Giorgio Valerio, son of an Italian steelman and a wealthy white Russian, Edison's rebirth was a proud moment after months of anxiety during the nationalization crisis. His victory gave a lift to the Milan exchange, which has been dormant for months; it also heartened Italy's nervous businessmen, who have been deeply depressed ever since last year's leftist turn in politics. Crowed one Italian industrialist: "They could nationalize electricity, but they couldn't nationalize Valerio...
...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...
...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...