Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want to duck the chin gunner...
...Mercedes limousine glided to a halt at the Italian customs booth in Ventimiglia on the French frontier. The uniformed chauffeur airily pronounced the ritual phrase "Niente da dichiarare" (Nothing to declare). The passenger in the back seat was Carlo Aloisi, 60, one of Italy's leading bankers and businessmen. Normally, the driver would have been taken at his word and waved on. This time, though, the customs guard made a rare, fortuitous spot check. Digging deep into Aloisi's elegant black briefcase, the guard discovered contraband promissory notes and commercial paper valued at $3.1 million. Under the provisions...
...first eight months of 1976 more than $11 million in contraband currency was seized, and a further $496 million in illegal financial deals was uncovered. Far more had undoubtedly slipped past the understaffed Guardia. As one of its officers admitted last week, "We would have to mobilize the whole Italian army if we wanted to search every person and car that crossed our frontiers. Last year almost 40 million people crossed into Italy, and of these 15 million came over for less than 24 hours and then went out again. If we searched everybody we would paralyze border traffic...
...Organizer. In my book, this is the best political film ever made. Done by an obscure Italian director in the early 1960s, The Organizer, portrays the birth of working class organization in a small suburb of Turin around the turn of the century. Presenting an intensely vivid but unsentimental portrait of oppression, the film conveys a unique sense of what it's like for people trapped in social processes who begin to take their fate into their own hands. The director raises all of the right questions about working class militancy--the problems of racism, sexism, and sectional divisions within...
...Fogg two exhibits are in progress: Art of Mughal India and Ottoman Turkey (through January 23) and Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque (through January...