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...which would have done carnal copulation irreparable damage if it hadn't been quite as deeply rooted." And he could make fun of himself, including his diminutive (5 ft. 6 in.) height. Writing from Italy in 1956, where he and his family spent a year, he described his rented palazzo: "There is only one chair in the salon where I can sit and have my feet touch the floor and there are two chairs where my feet don't even hang over the edge...
Rumors of a shutdown sweep the Palazzo Mezzanotte trading floor as the opening bell fails to ring. Finally the dealing begins, one hour late. As Fiat, Olivetti and other stocks lose 10% of their value, trading is stopped in each...
...Palazzo Chigi, the Renaissance building where Italy's Prime Minister works, is swathed in green netting while workmen repair its deteriorating facade. Last week the government inside was also crumbling. Citing deep rifts in his five- party coalition, Socialist Bettino Craxi resigned as Prime Minister after 3 1/ 2 years, ending Italy's longest postwar government...
With its dignified rooms, passing from grand to aedicular scale and back again, Palazzo Grassi is an excellent place to look at art. The show has art and a good deal else, including such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging from the cortile roof, and a vintage Bugatti by the canal entrance, to remind one of Marinetti's belligerent and much quoted dictum that "a roaring motorcar that seems to run ( on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...
...paintings, like the famous Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, are virtually straight renderings of multiple-exposure photographs. But in his series of paintings inspired by a Fiat speeding down the Via Veneto, the game gets more complex. Nearly all of this series is assembled at Palazzo Grassi, culminating in Balla's Abstract Speed, 1913, one of the few large futurist paintings that can be called a pictorial masterpiece, a thundering black Doppler-effect image in which the shapes of wheel, mudguard and driver dissolve in and out of the shuttling buildings...