Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beechnut Gum, Beechnut Lifesavers, Beechnut Baby Food. This town, too, is tired and rickety. No one gets off there, and it seems like all the young people have moved out. This is beautiful country, up to Herkimer, anyway, where things flatten out and get boring near Utica and Rome. West toward Syracuse, still boring, which is hard to understand when ten and twenty miles to the south the apple orchards and Finger Lakes and Ithaca and now, a lot of condiminiums are incredibly more interesting. Past Electronics Park at Syracuse, which is a behemoth, GE's big plant, along with...
...sadistic of them to stay." It was a prophetic comment. After trying so hard for so long to join the European Economic Community, Britain has apparently become the chief obstacle to European unity. Last week, after London nearly tore apart a meeting of Common Market heads of government in Rome, one EEC diplomat sadly concluded that "the British still don't understand what the Community is all about, or how it works...
...Funny. Whitehall officials have often joked that Britain might some day become a member of the Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and that some London civil servants might exchange their bowlers for Arab burnooses. Last week, at Rome's baroque Palazzo Barberini, Wilson in all seriousness argued before his Common Market colleagues that "it is no longer a humorous matter to point out that in a few years there is a strong possibility that Britain could become a member of OPEC...
...good time," mused Author Gore Vidal about his latest subject, the Roman Emperor Caligula, who once appointed his horse as Consul and twice abducted brides of noblemen in the middle of their weddings. "He was a hedonist." Vidal's screenplay is scheduled to go before the cameras in Rome next year. Appropriately, the $7 million production will be financed by a 20th century hedonist, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...
...very hard, hard work, nothing so glamorous as one would think," laments Bianco Jagger after a week's work in Rome on her first movie. Tentatively titled Trick or Treat, the film is a story about a romantic quadrangle (three women, one man), and Bianca plays a young sophisticate who happens to fall in love with an older woman - and married, at that. Despite the androgynous appeal of Husband Mick Jagger, rock star of the Rolling Stones, Bianca confesses to strictly traditional romantic tastes. "It's a very difficult role for me to portray; I have never fallen...