Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...windows with pebbles. Artist Francois Dallegret, who fashions fantastic automobiles, decked himself out like a skyrocket in a whiz-bang blazer of multicolored baby bunting. A Japanese clothed all in bright green staged a sort of Zen happening (a Jappening?) by sitting down right in the middle of Piazza San Marco, but by then everyone was too sated and wilted by the heat to care...
Between boat trips to the Lido to cool in the sea, there was the endless rounds of drinking and gabbing in outdoor cafes on the pigeon-infested piazza. And everywhere the parties went, there was one fellow sure to go-a man who insisted that he was from the U.S. Department of the Interior dealing "with Indian and Eskimo art." Of course, no Indians or Eskimos were represented...
...fact, opera attendance in Italy has slipped off by more than 30% in the past 15 years. At the core of the problem is a serious deficiency in young talent. Time was when there were as many first-rate young singers in Italy as pigeons in Piazza del Duomo. But now, with the high cost of training, most singers are not willing to devote the seven to ten years necessary to cultivate their voices. Moreover, the number of Italian opera houses where a fledgling singer can test his roulades has declined from 80 in 1930 to only 17 today...
...Gucci bag is not going to settle for something at her neighborhood store."). But by then, the uproar from the small shopkeepers was too loud to go unnoticed at city hall. Caving in, Traffic Commissioner Pala first reopened almost half the isola to private cars, put part of the Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square) to use as a car park. Two days later he went further, agreeing to let the rest of the island sink under the sea of protest, and putting pedestrians back in their place-hugging the sidewalks for dear life...
Forge of the Angels. Felled by a heart attack in 1948 and forced to eke out a living, Costantini set up a shop, like many of those lining the Piazza San Marco, selling the gaudy souvenirs that today pass for Venetian glass. "I suffered," he says. No one needed to remind him that Murano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon still crowded with furnaces, had once been the capital of the glassmaking world. The problem was to restore art to the craft, and Costantini decided to persuade contemporary artists to supply designs for the glassmakers left on Murano...