Word: palazzos
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...austere sandstone palazzo that houses Communist Party headquarters on Rome's Street of the Dark Shops, open telephone lines crackled as apparatchiks from Milan to Catania called in excitedly with the latest tallies. Over the party's closed-circuit television network, a bearded youth in shirtsleeves and a sleek blonde in a denim jacket broadcast the figures and forecast results...
...thunderstorms raged outside Rome's Palazzo dello Sport, Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, 52, explained the significance of the compromise in a 3½-hour keynote addressed to the 1,124 Italian delegates at the congress. It was Berlinguer who two years ago first proposed the idea that Italy's second largest party should become a partner in the government, after 30 years of opposition. Berlinguer argued that Communist participation in a government with other parties was essential "for the future of Italian democracy." He did not spell out the specific terms under which the party would enter such...
...chains of documentation for sales of art works are still remarkably weak. But sometimes a thief blunders and takes something unsalably famous. Siviero claims this is what happened in 1971, with the theft of Masaccio's Madonna with Child and Memling's Portrait of a Gentleman from Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. "The thieves found that even after two or three years they couldn't sell them, and we were able to recover them." He hopes that the fame of the Raphael and the Pieros will likewise result in their recovery. "The thieves couldn't sell that...
...dramatic decision came when the 235 Jesuit fathers, gathered from 80 nations, were about to enter their third and final month of deliberations in the horseshoe-shaped aula at the order's headquarters palazzo in Rome. The delegates, many of them wearing turtleneck sweaters or loud ties instead of clerical black, cast their votes by punching buttons on their desks that registered placet (it pleases) or non placet on an electronic Scoreboard behind the dais...
This inclusiveness knows no bounds. Everyone lives together in Amarcord, from the town drunk to the bizarre count in his palazzo. There is the sense of an ending whenever--because of death or marriage to an outsider--anyone leaves the town. Everyone gathers at funerals and marriages to see them off; every evening, they take their stroll along the town's main street, nodding to everyone else. The city Fellini used for filming had some things in it that were obviously postwar--Amarcord is set in the thirties--but he didn't need to change or cover...