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Word: rome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Sondheim's wonderfully confusing musical comedy set in ancient Rome. Under the auspices of Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society at the Agassiz Theatre in Radcliffe Yard. Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. through November...

Author: By R. E. Liebmann, | Title: Stage listings | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...suggestion is that after gleaning millions of dollars from American moviegoers, the beast be deported to Rome to direct traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 15, 1976 | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Waiting for the compliance report of the Boston Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is like waiting for the Rome-to-Milan train in pre-Mussolini Italy--it never comes...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: Waiting for the report | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...Daughter Liza, a stops-out entertainer, and such gifted, welcome actors as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted from a novel by Maurice Druon called Film of Memory, would seem suited to all: a sentimental, gilded fairy tale about a poor Italian provincial (Liza) who comes to Rome to work in a hotel. She buddies up with a batty, once regal contessa (Bergman), who urges her always to "be yourself-the world worships an original." The girl follows this advice and becomes a first-magnitude movie star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Lapse of Memory | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...sexy Bitter Rice, starring Sylvana Mangano, who became his wife, that made Dino his first fortune. He used the money to build Dino Citta, his film studio in Rome. Thereafter he plunged big on spectacles like War and Peace and The Bible; tides of money ebbed and flowed. Four years ago, he moved his operations to the U.S. The reason: "I begin to sniff trouble in Italia. I no like what I smell in the politics or the economy." He now says that his only mistake was not moving a decade earlier. "No other country makes room for foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES KING KONG | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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