Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While the two men got down to business, Raisa Gorbachev visited museums and art galleries and attended cultural functions arranged by Gandhi's Italian-born wife Sonia...
...world's best museum of its kind. Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive. The Musee d'Orsay is to this period what the Uffizi is to the Italian Renaissance or the Museum of Modern Art to the 20th century. There are some masterpieces it will never get, but as a discourse of objects from a given period, it has no equal. One is used to museums that get things three-quarters right and implore the visitor to be sanguine...
...smaller "streets" for sculpture, and off those, on the upper level, more galleries for painting and decorative arts. This axiality was compared, by critics who saw it in the model or not at all, to the Maginot Line or perhaps the Valley of the Kings -- a set for an Italian production of Aida. Not so: it mediates beautifully between the almost incomprehensibly large space of Laloux's vault and the scale of one's own body. It retains all that was most benevolent in beaux arts grandeur -- the reassurance offered by architecture that the individual is the reason...
Editor's Note: The phrase Pyhrric victory was not inspired by the Peloponnesian War but by the disastrous strategies of the Greek king Pyhrrus in his war against the Romans in the Italian region of Magna Graecia...
Christian Democratic leaders have attacked Il Caso Moro as a "gross distortion." Nonetheless, Italian moviegoers are flocking to the film...