Word: roma
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...good news traveled fast. As a leftist, Bologna's incoming mayor Sergio Cofferati was sure to be a friend to the city's most marginalized. And so an illegal encampment of Roma refugees on the city's outskirts began attracting new residents. "Word was spreading," recalls Bologna immigration chief Fausto Amelii, "that the new administration was going to take care of them...
...enough? He was one of Italy's grandest producers, perhaps second only to Dino De Laurentiis. The two forged a partnership in the early 50s, when De Laurentiis was producing films with his own bombshell wife, Silvana Mangano. Dino and Carlo's signature film was Un Americano a Roma, a modest comedy about a young Italian besotted with all things American. It expressed the hope of two paisan producers to make films that appealed both to the local market and the American, often by pairing one of their star spouses with a Hollywood name. Thus Mangano played Penelope (and Circe...
...been fully explained, the film crew might well have found willing participants, albeit probably for higher pay. Instead, it appears that the filmmakers elected to save a few hundred dollars. And why not? The village, being ostracized from Romanian society at large because it is inhabited by Roma people, was especially easy to exploit...
...white rather than Bosnia's official blue and yellow. "We've got everything here," said Predrag Andelic, 50, over a cigarette and a bottle of beer. He's a war veteran from near the city of Prijedor, site of internment camps that saw the deaths of thousands of Muslims, Roma and Croats. He and his neighbors don't trust Muslim leaders in Sarajevo. "We would like to share with the Muslims but they do not want to share with us," says one friend. "They want to take over." This month's election campaign has opened up a sharp new divide...
LISBON Strollers on this city's Avenida de Roma love the durability of Persol for Max & Co. lenses...