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...example, the book includes a glowing biographical sketch of former Secretary of State George C. Marshall that is only very loosely tied to the big three. Another chapter entitled “Brumidi’s Frescoes and Film Noir” seems similarly detached. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian artist who attempted to overthrow the pope in the early 1850s. He went into exile in the United States and designed patriotic murals at the Capitol—using a “real fresco” technique “in which paint is applied to [a] wet surface...
...Serge Chermayeff when landscape buildings were fashionable. Vertical may be victorious, but horizontal is happier. Allan Bula Bexhill on Sea, England Lingering Racism Your article "a difficult lesson" described the racism that persists in South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid [April 25]. I am an Italian, and I have lived in Durban, South Africa, on and off for four years. The first time was when apartheid was still dominant. The second time was when apartheid was on the verge of collapse. I have also visited the country on vacation and was there just last Christmas. I have...
...Sony. In fact, Kerkorian's dalliance with MGM over the years reads like a sordid back-lot love story. He first bought shares in the studio in 1969, sold MGM/UA to Ted Turner in '86, bought back most of it a few months later, unloaded it to an Italian financier in '90 and bought it again in '96. Whoever got stiffed along the way (and he's been criticized for gutting the studio), it wasn't Captain Kirk; he earned $500 million just buying MGM from Turner. "He's got ice water in his veins," says a rival...
...lack of deliberate action doesn't rule out blame attributable to negligence, imprudence or even simple incompetence." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, in response to a U.S. military investigation exonerating American soldiers in the March shooting death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, in response to a U.S. military investigation exonerating American soldiers in the March shooting death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq