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Adopting the Habsburgs. Of course, many other nations suffer from crawling bureaucracy, but Italy's problem is on the scale of Michelangelo's David or the triumphal march in Aïda. Barzini traces its origins back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when together with so many other of Italian society's "baroque" characteristics, it was imported by Italy's hated Spanish Habsburg rulers, and then adopted and glorified by the natives. Nowadays most Italians consider the archvillains to be the bureaucrats themselves. They have come to be known as i burosauri, a name derived...
...directors of the state-run Italian Line. In the greatest investment in money and tonnage ever made by a shipping company in a single year, the line is introducing not just one luxury liner but two. Last week, after an eight-day trip from Genoa, the 45,900-ton Michelangelo glided into Manhattan on its maiden voyage; late in July its twin, the Raffaello, will go into service on the 4,700-nautical-mile run between the Italian Riviera and New York...
Props & Profits. The Michelangelo is eleven decks high and one-sixth of a mile long, has more swimming pools than any other ship (three each for adults and children-all outdoors and heated) and more art than several substantial museums. It has 30 bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when...
...DESERT. Monica Vitti goes soul-searching amid the blighted landscape of industrial Ravenna as a neurotic young wife whose alienation is stunningly visualized in Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film...
...DESERT. Color infuses plot and theme and provides the principal fascination of Director Michelangelo Antonioni's drama about a neurotic young wife (Monica Vitti) who searches her soul against a dispiriting industrial cityscape...