Word: rome
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Skip the Ritz. Bypass London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Athens. Head for the byways. Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthăuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores. This is the year of the offbeat, off-beaten-track European vacation...
DIED. Nino Rota, 67, Italian composer best known for some 100 movie scores, including the Oscar-winning music for Godfather II and nearly all of Director Federico Fellini's films; of a blood clot; in Rome. A native of Milan, Rota composed his first opera at 14 and in 1931 went to the U.S. to study at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Returning to Italy two years later, he continued writing operas (The Italian Straw Hat), symphonies and chamber works during his next 45 years, but achieved his greatest success scoring such films as Fellini's La Strada...
Murphy's researches in Rome in 1973-74 and last year gave him an eerie prescience. In the novel, Pope Francesco visits Mexico and enunciates the church's position on political involvement: "The church must be independent . . . We can not have a material stake in the status quo or in revolution or in any of the other possible political events in between. We must be free to preach justice and to do justice." Those were the precise ideas, if not the very words, of Pope John Paul II on his visit to Mexico last January, well after...
...ENDOWS HIS narrator with an urbane wit which frequently turns upon Western decadence and indicts the depersonalized world of modern technology. John's sarcastic wit carries the novel through its occasional slow stretches such as his lengthy drive from Naples to Rome...
Tremors were reported in West Germany, Hungary and Austria. Residents of Rome felt tremors strong enough to set their chandeliers swinging...