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Europe's oldest indigenous tribe, with a trilling language whose roots have not yet been discovered, the Basques fought off the Romans, the Visigoths and the Moors. They lost little love on Spain's Castilian kings. Though a threadbare Basque government-in-exile hangs on in Paris, most...
Why this belief in the efficacy of a strip of copper? No users can really explain their faith, though they all talk vaguely about body electricity, excess acids and even outright magic. But the most common (and completely unfounded) belief-held since the time of the ancient Romans-is that...
The guessing game has spread abroad, where Crimsonologists on the European summer seminar circuit remind some observers of Romans gossiping during the interminable eve of a papal election. Some of the names being bandied about over there: Former HEW Secretary John Gardner, Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard (who turned down Columbia...
We Americans should take a lesson from the ancient Romans, for when they discovered that most of their problems were internal, it was too late to save their mighty empire.
So there you have the story. On it hang thousands of cameos: of ugly, deformed, voluptuous. debauching Romans. Fellini's camera moves past them almost mechanically, allotting a measured vignette to each freak and then moving on. The story almost rumbles as it moves unaffected through so many lives.