Word: istrian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Elsewhere, Cap d'Agde in France still remains a popular draw, as does Croatia's Istrian coast. New spots are opening up in Belize and the Dominican Republic. Even Rio de Janeiro?a city famous for its barely there bikinis and near-naked carnival dancers?has now got its first nudist beach, after a decade-long fight with the law. So, if you've ever been curious, now might be the time to take the plunge. "It is often likened to jumping into a swimming pool for the first time," says Mick Ayers of the International Naturist Federation...
...invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump. One's awe at Piazza San Marco is mingled with pity and even impatience, and the child in the tourist impertinently wonders how soon the whole peeling confection, gold, Istrian stone, gelati and all, will be swallowed at last in the lagoon...
...Palladio's. Why did he pre fer white? Because the protagonist in his Venetian churches, San Giorgio Maggiore and the Redentore, no less than in his villas, is light-the rich, fugitive, unstable light of the lagoon and the inland plain. Reflected from the creamy Istrian stone, absorbed by brick work and stucco, or washing solemnly across the pure vaults and domes, light gave substance a dreamlike sensuousness. No architect ever understood the ingredients of his craft better; Palladio's buildings, strict as they are, remain both exquisite and ideal, as though held in a parenthesis somewhere outside...
...Bratislava, and Poland's Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology has ordered a watch on all "mysterious space vehicles." UFOs have been particularly ubiquitous in Yugoslavia, whose press has gleefully recounted a Montenegrin shepherd's report of a whistling, skyscraper-high UFO, told of UFOs streaking over the Istrian port of Koper, and detailed Truck Driver Milika Scepanović's brush with two saucers on the Kovina-Ivangrad road last week...
Trieste, says its mayor, has become "a beautiful head without a body or bloodstream." Under the 1954 agreement, almost all the city's Istrian hinterland went to Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavs have worked hard to build up nearby Fiume (now called Rijeka) as a rival port. By keeping labor costs at coolie levels, Rijeka offers shippers rates running 20% to 50% below Trieste's. The nations of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, for which Trieste used to be the prime port, are mostly Communist now, but even non-Communist Austria has diverted so much of its business to Rijeka...