Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from her husband's court, Caroline at last decided to take her show on the road. Trailing a retinue of doubtful characters through Europe in a refurbished stagecoach, she established her own royal residence in a gleaming white palace on the shores of Lake Como, with a dashing Italian hussar named Bergami as pro tem king of her heart. Caroline's philandering might well have gone unnoticed by Prinney, who was then Prince Regent, except that when she returned to London, vast crowds of the common people, who hated him and his gross excesses, cordially claimed Caroline...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, gets the year's loudest laughs as she demonstrates why Italian ham is a delicacy (TIME...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse: Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
...Waugh-begone women, Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth, who hunt their gross and boorish businessmen prey. One of the girls ends up in a bad marriage to an Italian. ("His profession?" "I don't think I know you well enough to tell...
...early drawings the Classical and Italian influences are most clear. The head of Niccolo da Uzzano done after Leonardo shows unusual restraint and severity. The expression is matched by later drawings of two Roman busts but these are done with a more decorative and expressionistic use of pen and ink. Problems of foreshortening and uncharacteristic inhibition in proportion reflect youthful weakness in one or two drawings, but we have in the study for the figure of Christ, "Raising of the Cross" already a drawing of exceptional merit. All parts of the body add to the general momentum. There is power...