Word: murano
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...closed to gondolas, and frogmen periodically searched the murky waters for mines and bombs. Plainclothesmen, including the U.S. Secret Service, mingled with tourists. For security reasons the Carters' hostess, Danielle Gardner, wife of U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner, was forbidden to take Rosalynn and Amy to many landmarks, including Murano island, which is headquarters for the city's famed glassblowers. But Rosalynn and Amy were scheduled to visit St. Mark's Square and the Doges' Palace...
...Canale in the Dolomite Alps of northeastern Italy, says the parish priest, "the villagers have been forced to work abroad. [Luciani's] father went to Switzer land to make a living." Even tually, the elder Luciani was able to settle down as a glassworker on the small island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon...
...Felled by a heart attack in 1948 and forced to eke out a living, Costantini set up a shop, like many of those lining the Piazza San Marco, selling the gaudy souvenirs that today pass for Venetian glass. "I suffered," he says. No one needed to remind him that Murano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon still crowded with furnaces, had once been the capital of the glassmaking world. The problem was to restore art to the craft, and Costantini decided to persuade contemporary artists to supply designs for the glassmakers left on Murano...
Sicilian Snopes. Like an embalmed pharaoh, Don Fabrizio is surrounded by his possessions, from powdered footmen to Murano chandeliers, from silver soup tureens to gold-flecked frescoes. When a soldier of the risorgimento turns up in Don Fabrizio's garden to remind him of the passions of the dispossessed, the prince gives his pet great Dane some conservative advice ("One never achieves anything by going bang! bang!'') and retreats to his telescope to contemplate the snobbish quietude of the stars...
...Corso. One picture gallery has long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff, a doge...