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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate a whole book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

With a resounding pop, Italy blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for one of his highly abstract nudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anything Goes | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Whether the liberties Viani took with the female body were modern Italy's greatest sculpture or not, last week's award satisfied everybody of one new wonderful fact: in Italian sculpture, after long years of a dictator's regimentation, anything goes once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anything Goes | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Dassin's erratic direction of actors produces some mixed results: Morris Car-novsky's generalized flourishes as a once-happy Greek, Lee Cobb's flabby, badly timed portrait of a marketeer, Millard Mitchell's hard-bitten acting of a tired truck driver. The Italian glitter girl, Valentina Cortesa, seems a likely candidate for the top-salaried star bracket. In the role of a waterfront fixture, she looks like an unemployed countess, but she spikes the role with a sweater-girl figure, viva-ciousness and great self-assurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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