Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These Roman actors live very well," observed Jason Robards. "It was trie perfect party, and I just loved meeting Lauren Bacall," gushed Claudia Cardinale. "Gee, I don't remember if I went to a party or not," admitted Faye Dunaway, 27, who was in Rome for her latest film, The Lovers, and was the sight for all eyes at a bash given by Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman. "La Dolce Vita's dead," explained Gassman, "so I called it the 'California Roman Party' to honor the foreigners in town." From the sound of it, La Dolce Vita...
...another $250,000. At the turn of the century, Von Stuck was Germany's most fashionable painter, earning the equivalent of $250,000 a year. His slickly lecherous nymphs and centaurs were snapped up by wealthy industrialists, his portraits commissioned by royalty, and his banquets were compared to Roman Bacchanalia. Von Stuck's million-mark palazzo, begun in 1896, fell into decay after his death in 1927, but an aging daughter lived amid the ruins until 1961. Opened last month as a Jugendstil museum, the Stuck-Villa pays its way by housing four art galleries in its annex...
Died. The Rev. Aloysius S. Travers, 75, Philadelphia Roman Catholic priest, whose ever so brief career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records-most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face...
Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...
...conversations, between two, three, or four major characters. These are scenes directed primarily at the ear, and it is in them that the production is at its best. Eddying about the pivotal encounters, however, is Shaw's depiction of the varied and colorful life of the Egyptian court and Roman camp. These physical details call for the best sort of visualization and stage realization, and I wonder how much they would contribute either to the dramatic argument or the comic effect of the play in even the best production. Significantly, and not too unhappily, it is in this area...