Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many Italian pundits believe it will-the Christian Democrats, for all Fanfani's threats, will almost certainly need Liberal support to form a government, and to obtain it will have to pay more heed to the gadfly voice of Giovanni Malagodi. "The reawakening of the Liberal Party," declared Rome's Il Messaggero last week, "constitutes the one new fact in this campaign . . . and it augurs well for Italian democracy...
Sculpture can be-and lately has been -made from wire, welding rod, boiler plate, concrete, and wormy wood. Last week a pair of shows in Rome and Manhattan served to prove that bronze and marble also have possibilities...
...Rome's Palazzo Barberini, whimsical, Sicilian-born Emilio Greco, 44, winner of the top Italian sculpture award at the last Venice Biennale, showed 42 sculptures covering 20 years' work. To Sculptor Greco's delight, it was his newest work, three monumental bronze Grand Bathers, that had the critics (including famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù) singing his praises...
...theme is most explicitly stated in The Last Mohican, a wry and witty fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
Anthony Quinn, complete with Mongolian mustache and a distempered look, stars as the barbarian leader finally turned from the portals of Rome by the Pope and a collection of cross-bearing Christians Bovine Sophia Loren (disgruntled sister of the play-pen emperor) bounces by in a chariot--with that watermelon corpulence which, in this sublimating age, passes for beauty at the box office...