Word: grassy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strehler, 55, is one of Europe's best-known stage directors, a co-founder with Paolo Grassi of Milan's prestigious Piccolo Teatro. But, unlike his countrymen Franco Zeffirelli and the late Luchino Visconti, he has not yet worked in movies, and so is almost unknown in the U.S. A native of Trieste, he comes from a musical family; his mother played violin in a professional string quartet. "I grew up reading music," says Strehler. Since then he has hankered to be a conductor. "It's a pity that I'm not qualified to conduct...
...lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from...