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Before them, on the pavement under a budding willow tree, was an impromptu folk memorial to the five bodyguards who had been murdered during the kidnaping of Aldo Moro, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Party and a former Premier. The memorial is now a symbol of what the Italian press has come to call, among many other things, the "Strage di Gioveìi Nero"- the Massacre of Black Thursday. Several hundred bouquets of flowers were piled neatly in front of a low cross. Pinned to the cross in a cellophane shield were five newspaper photos of the dead...
...battlefield. Until February 20, 13 days after the Blizzard of '78 had ended, army units were still blockading the two roads leading into the South Shore peninsula on which the town lies. Craters several feet in diameter pock marked the streets where sweeping tides had torn up the asphalt pavement...
stuck to the pavement...
...pavement...
...cadence of the prose in Olive and Mary Anne is reminiscent of boots on pavement. The themes are not much subtler: an heiress slides into boozy decay; a proletarian poet recollects his childhood in an orphanage and his sexual initiation; a Communist seeks to tear down institutions-and dreams of dominating women. It scarcely matters what time is assigned to these stories; the author's clock has stopped in the '30s, when naturalism reigned and bourgeois society was the ordure of the day. The revolutionaries of that epoch now resemble entries on some tarnished armed services memorial: Edward...