Word: risotto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly if at all on hundreds of thousands of once fertile acres. Cities that were built for walking and carriages are now, like Rome or Taranto, choked with Fiats. Traditional patterns of circulation die as the arcades vanish and piazzas become parking lots. The historic centers crumble...