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...Dorsoduro quarter. Every inch of wall space in this grottolike shop is hung with elaborate masks skillfully handpainted in vibrant colors. "The secret of wearing a mask is to invent a personality for yourself and interact with the people around you," says master maskmaker Guerrino Lovato, whose papier-mâché creations were worn by Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. (See pictures of the glitz and glamour at the Venice Film Festival...
...optimistic businesses are about the future - last week reached its highest level since German reunification. The reason for all this good cheer? Columnists call it the Merkel Factor. It was even given solid form on floats at the annual Carnival parade in Cologne. Last year, a vast, papier-mâché Merkel bent over to kiss the bottom of a George W. Bush figure; this year she had undergone a makeover into a motherly barkeeper, huge breasts enveloping her coalition partner, apparently loving him - and Germany - to death. From figure of fun to Mother Germany, from electoral liability...
...Craftsmen put the finishing touches on La Fenice (the Phoenix), the legendary theater in Venice that has been reborn, nearly eight years after it burned down. Painted angels once again hover among the five tiers of boxes, and 300,000 sheets of gold leaf gild the carved-wood and papier-mâché decor. The old bird's new feathers will be shown off this week with a festival featuring concerts by Elton John and the Vienna Philharmonic. Bravo...
...acted with restraint, and the whole affair at times took on the air of a nationwide picnic. In Bonn, the nation's capital and the main location of the weekend's activity, some 350,000 people streamed through the streets holding banners and here and there bobbing papier-mâché caricatures of President Ronald Reagan. Armbanded marshals kept the river of humanity flowing easily past empty ministries and shuttered foreign embassies. Following meticulous plans, thousands of marchers slowly formed a human star, several miles around, whose points linked the embassies of the world's nuclear...
Your cover relegates man to a papier-mâché dummy and glorifies a machine. No wonder E.T. wanted to go home...