Word: ostia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner tab of $175 a person is paid without a wince. "Porto Cervo is just one big slot machine," says one bemused American tourist. "Nobody cares." Italian vacationers obviously have the same blithe attitude toward water pollution as their counterparts in France: at the Roman resorts of Ostia and Fregene, bathers frolic only a few miles from Rome's principal raw-sewage outlets...
...mile ride downtown. Flow Through: slow. No curbside checkin. Baggage carts hard to find. No moving sidewalks. TV screens, showing departure gates, not always functioning. Longest walk: 1,300 ft. Baggage checkout: 20 min. Immigration and customs: airport's only delight. Hotels/Motels: pleasant, modern facilities near beach at Ostia, five miles away. Amenities: substandard. Coffee bars (espresso 30?, Coke 57?). Best restaurant: International Airport Restaurant. Ten bars, open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; one in international transit section open 24 hr. Two tax-free shops selling only liquor and cigarettes. (Best distraction for passenger with two hours to spare...
...years old, poet, filmmaker, and social agitator, from the ruts of the dirt road in the early hours of Sunday, November 2nd. By that afternoon, all Rome knew that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini...
Died. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, maverick Italian film director, poet and novelist; after being bludgeoned with a fence post and run over by his own Alfa Romeo driven by a 17-year-old boy whom he had picked up; in Ostia, Italy. A Marxist with a nostalgia for Catholicism, and a known homosexual, Pasolini managed to rouse the wrath of Italy's Catholics and Communists alike. In 1961 his first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with...
...time. But it is an open question among intelligence agencies whether Gaddafi himself directly orders such terrorism. Many European authorities would just as soon not find out, since Europe is so dependent on Arab nations for its oil. Thus, after two of the five Arabs arrested in the Ostia incident were released pending trial, they disappeared; Italian authorities have shown no inclination to pursue them...