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...acerbic Rudolf Bing has taken some sharply critical looks at culture in the U.S., has cast an occasional wistful eye at the old-world advantages-including fat government subsidies-of European opera houses. Despite the fact that, artistically speaking, there are really no big managerial plums after the Met (Milan's La Scala is not likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed to a new five-year contract, and that the Opera...
...modern female. The ordinary double bed with its feminine frills not only sins against good taste, he argues, but is no place where a man can be sick with comfort or die with majesty. Agush with strong and sensible views on everything from bathroom faucets to skyscraper spires, Milan's Ponti exuberantly looks forward to the day when walls twist like trees and look like vegetables. See ART, The Pleasures of Ponti...
...raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants and hard collars. They will not prevail...
Opera's most flamboyant diva and one of the cinema's hottest box-office blondes were on the outs with their employers. At the Edinburgh Festival, tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas waved a note from her doctor, walked out on Milan's La Piccola Scala (her second such disappearance this summer), said she was going back to Italy, explained: "I'm tired." In Hollywood, irked by a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures that calls for a humiliating $1,250 a week, straw-haired Kim Novak refused to show up for a film, was suspended...
...Milan is in the midst of its most successful Triennale-a once-in-three-years show of industrial arts, dating back to 1907. This year 23 countries are participating, and a total turnout of 300,000 visitors is expected. There is plenty to see: Japanese porcelain. Scandinavian furniture, a geodesic dome designed by the U.S.'s R. Buckminster Fuller. But the show's foremost attraction by far, is a one-man pavilion celebrating the effervescent genius of Milan's own Gio Ponti...