Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film festival in West Berlin, Italian Cinemorsel Sophia (That Kind of Woman) Loren happily clutched a floral tribute, smiled appreciatively while the beleaguered city's gallant Mayor Willy Brandt (TIME, May 25) grabbed a vase for her bouquet. At Brandt's city hall, Sophia also signed a "golden book" for distinguished visitors, accepted from the mayor a white porcelain replica of the city's freedom bell, whose original, presented to Berliners by the Crusade for Freedom, hangs in the city hall tower...
...whom the Italian Line's ill-fated Andrea Doria was named...
With the low rents in Vatican apartments and the rock-bottom prices at Vatican City stores, this will give the Vatican citizen a considerable advantage over his Italian peer. A Grade 10 clerk in any Italian ministry, for instance, earns about $104 a month, minus about $11.20 deducted for taxes and social security. His Vatican opposite number will presumably get $147.20 a month without deductions, will pay 20% to 50% less for food and clothes...
This work has another noteworthy feature: although the piece is in the major mode, the finale is in the minor. Of course there are countless examples of a work in the minor whose finale is in the major; but instances of the reverse are extremely few (Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony is another example...
...Roof (Italian). Sociology plus romance: how a housing shortage affects the love life of the Roman poor, shown with gentle realism...