Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overflowing Heart. In their first flush of enthusiasm over regaining Trieste, Rome's bureaucrats floated a national bond issue to help compensate the city for the economic loss it suffered with the departure of the 6,000 U.S. and British troops who had garrisoned the free territory. But since then, Rome has turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy...
...bands of color, and North Dakota-born Clyfford Still, whose outsize paintings suggested both Western canyons and bark peeled from a tree. Talented younger men (notably Sam Francis and Lawrence Calcagno) spread the Rothko-Still gospel in staccato dab-and-dash across the U.S. and on to Paris and Rome...
...Romans have been crying for several years for drastic solutions to the traffic problem, it is only within recent months that the city government has devised an overall "regulatory plan," which is intended to shift much of the city's business-and most of its traffic-away from Rome's historic center to the suburbs. In the meantime, profiteers and speculators have been free to make Rome's outskirts a mixture of slums and squalid forests of ugly, jerry-built apartments...
There were some who questioned the idea of a traffic-free interior city. "Rome cannot live in the shadow of its ruins," sighed // Tempo. "Rome is not Pompeii, but a living metropolis...
...oils" and a six months' scholarship for study in Paris. Manabu Mabe, a Japanese-born farm hand who had sold only one painting in his life (for $12 to a friend), found himself with a sellout show in Rio de Janeiro; dealers from Caracas, Paris, New York and Rome were plying him with offers...