Word: ostia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bang-bang, she has fired her twin pistols, whose small round muzzles protrude from her brassiere like iron nipples. As the Chinese slumps, Ursula coolly bends her head to blow the smoke away. Then off she goes in hot pursuit across New York, around Rome's Colosseum and Ostia beach to get her tenth victim, none other than Marcello Mastroianni...
...capitals to explain U.S. policies in Viet Nam is rather too apt a way to spend those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. So U.S. Envoy Henry Cabot Lodge, 62, found it extraordinarily pleasant to take a day off from his mission for a visit to Rome's Ostia Beach with Italian Protocol Chief Guerino Roberti and his family. The latest details in the daily papers on the shifting sands in Saigon could only illustrate what a grind diplomacy is. But as Roberti's noble Roman daughter Cristina pointed out, there are compensations-and Lodge needed only...
...rounding off the week, hardly anything would beat Class. Phil. 283a: "Ostia: Topography and Inscriptions. A seminar intended to serve also as an introduction to Latin Epigraphy..."Friday, 4-6. See you there...
...moment, Mastroianni is making a new movie for Fellini, which is temporarily titled Fellini 8-½. Presumably, it is Fellini's autobiography. Mastroianni, at least, is playing the part of a motion picture director. Shooting last week at night on the shiny black sands of the beach at Ostia, the shivering cast was collected around a mysterious tower; rockets and satellites were scattered about, and workmen carried sheets of glass painted with unrelated scenes, such as the Pope being carried in a procession, for the cameras to shoot through...
...seaside restaurants of Ostia near Rome, fashionably clothed signori and signorine sneer at Americans in their slacks, sweaters and tennis sneakers. The publishing industry is booming, and Italy's 60 movie sound stages steadily employ 27,000 workers, while Hollywood is on the ropes. Apart from sex and spectacles, the theme of Italian movies is changing: man's fight to make a living is increasingly replaced by the effort to understand himself in a complex, prosperous society...