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It could be said that wearing the right clothes to fit the occasion is merely a matter of good taste; nevertheless it is not a matter which can be entirely ignored. There is a certain amount of truth to the old maxim of "when in Rome, do as the Romans...
Young Gianni Marzotto, 21, set off at a 100 m.p.h. clip, remembered passing brother Vittorio, 28, in the first hour. But he had little time for watching other drivers as he increased his speed, sometimes to 118, through the winding Apennines roads and finally thundered into Rome, the halfway mark...
That something, Berenson thinks, is a spiritual affinity for a long-dead world. Artists, he writes, may sometimes "wake up in a world not their own . . . Many are . . . perchance Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Ostrogoths, Sarmatians, Bulgars or 'late Romans' as I believe Alberto Sani to be . . . Frequenting no schools...
Albert Borowitz, as the scheming slave Pseudolus, is the perfect clown. He is stealthy one moment, moronic the next; when he comes out in the last scene balancing a bottle of Schlitz on his head and drinking from a hot-water bag, even the most non-Roman audience cannot help...
Unlike Christmas cards, which everyone knows were instigated by a Swiss job printer in 1856 to tide him over the slack season, Valentine's day cards can be traced back to historical origins. Specifically, they come from the ancient Roman Feast of the Lupercalia where youth men and women put...