Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moore has developed a subspecialty in this sort of high-camp Gulf ephemeron: for New Orleans he designed the Piazza d'Italia and the snazziest part of the 1984 World's Fair. His Galveston arch, a pair of towers connected by wire mesh, is more of the same, a flibbertigibbet accretion of painted waves, plywood sea creatures, banners, arches, gables, windows, lights, action. Aubry's rigid canopy of pleated gold fiber glass, topped by a big wooden fish, is baffling but unequivocally vulgar--like kitsch from another planet, or a collaboration between Claes Oldenburg and Cher. Powell's arch, with...
...shopping bargains would be like going to the Super Bowl to buy a souvenir T shirt. Looking at the rose windows of Chartres, one of the great creations in the Western world, does not cost anything at all, nor does the view of the moon rising over the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Sights like these, combined with the pleasures of good food and drink, are the perennial bargains of European travel...
...cross paths in Naples 40 years after meeting during World War II. At first, Lemmon was wary of Naples. But when he took a walk, "someone would recognize me, smile and then start clapping. Soon somebody else would follow suit, and in a little while the whole street or piazza was clapping." What actor could resist? Adds Mastroianni: "In Naples the people will smile at you and whisper, 'Hallo, Marcello, we are getting old; come and have a coffee.' But in Rome, God protect you. They will snigger behind your back, 'Now he is old. Look at those lines...
...Venice Biennale is the longest-running festival-cum-survey in modern art. The first one was held in 1895, and the 41st opened this month in its three dozen national pavilions, set in the public gardens a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos...
...spokesman, Public Relations Director Mark Piazza, added that there is no "realistic possibility" of Bourbeau jumping to the pro ranks without some post-high school seasoning...