Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lover leaves her, her former husband dies, and she is left with nobody to hate, nobody to love. "I am gone, she thought; they have taken me with them; I shall never return." Few readers will miss her. In her fifth novel, Elizabeth Spencer (The Light in the Piazza) demonstrates a delicate attention to the shifting, uncertain boundaries between illusion and reality. But her characters are merely attitudes or intuitions, and her sensibility a romantic smog that muffles all the harsh realities the author and her heroine cannot bear to face...
...murals, swarming with the turbulent will-o'-the-wisps of his own endless fantasy. From their vantage on the Met's grand tier, the over-two-story-high murals will glow through the glassed vaults to dominate a city vista more spacious than the Piazza San Marco in Venice...
...habitué follows a more calculatedly relaxed schedule: a noontime apéritif in the sun-drenched Piazza del Duomo, where one was sure to see George Balanchine and the Maharani of Jaipur. Or late lunch in the Trattoria Panciolle, followed by a long siesta. The music of pianos, violins and vocalizing floats out of narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar...
Venice is the greatest of museum cities, and it guards its monuments jealously. In fact, the city has largely resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A mother is charged with the death of her three-year-old son. William Shatner, Madlyn Rhue and Ben Piazza are guest stars...