Word: rome
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Paul is the fourth Pope in a row to pass his 80th birthday and the seventh out of eight in the past century. Indeed, late last week he tried to end the resignation talk when he told the Synod of Bishops assembled in Rome: "From this event in our lives, for all the time that God may wish to allow us, we have the firm resolution to dedicate all of our strength for the good of the church...
...star, but it is an elegantly designed film that offers original insights into a historical chapter that has already been examined exhaustively by such Italian directors as Wertmuller, Bertolucci and Visconti. Essentially a two-character drama, the movie is set on the May day in 1938 when all of Rome turned out to rally for Hitler. Loren and her most durable costar, Marcello Mastroianni, play the only tenants of a cavernous apartment building who remain at home during the festivities. Antonietta, an ignorant working-class housewife, has stayed behind to clean up the cramped flat she shares with her boorish...
...Callas, the subject of such ire and much admiration? She was a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented. Tempestuous, unpredictable, charming, ruthless, overwhelmingly talented, capable of canceling a performance halfway through (as she did once in Rome) even with a King in the audience. In her long face a kind of gypsy coarseness struggled with and failed to dominate a classic beauty. She could act with her voice and sing with her body, like a great tragedienne. Especially in her later years, that voice could be edgy and even ugly. But that did not matter...
Next to Halprin, Architect Philip Johnson, 71, is probably the man most interested in water as art. "Modern architecture is so dull and flat in itself that architects began looking for something to enliven it-and they remembered Rome." So says the man who added fountains to the foreplaza of New York City's Seagram Building, which he co-designed with Mies van der Rohe. Johnson's most conspicuous recent water work is Fort Worth's Water Garden. The garden has three pools, each with a different speed-sound characteristic-"quiet, fizz and rush." The "quiet" pool...
...actual escape, she apparently had some help: when the Fiat broke down near Trento, 370 miles north of Rome, two men sought to have it repaired. The Kapplers are believed to have transferred to another vehicle and driven the rest of the way to West Germany. At week's end the couple were in hiding under tight West German security guard...