Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city of Rome has solved at least one of its urgent problems: the Women's Police Corps, just ten years old, some 600 strong. What were these women going to wear...
Granted, at the beginning everything seemed so simple. Together, Rome's councilman for the city police, Mario De Bartolo, and Policewoman Enrica Pirri, who had abandoned a job at a fashion house to do public relations for the Corps, developed the idea for a competition. Why not have Pirri's former colleagues design a replacement for the women's version of men's outfits-navy blue skirt instead of trousers and regulation jacket with a couple of bust darts added to accommodate anatomy? Five renowned Italian designers would be invited to submit prototypes. The prize would...
...Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn for a brisk constitutional on the moors. The other contenders-Milan's Mila Schön, and the Fontana Sisters of Rome-also made impressive showings. It was an embarrassment of riches and, as it turns out, a bit of an embarrassment altogether...
...long as they persist, they are in some sense unforgivable. The doctrine raises interesting questions of unforgivability. If it had been 6 million Catholics who were exterminated in the Nazi death camps, would the Pope have forgiven Adolf Eichmann? Or would he have had Eichmann hunted down, taken to Rome for trial and executed, as the Jews brought Eichmann to Jerusalem for judgment and hanging...
...Pope is required to confess his sins in private, just like the humblest of his parishioners. John Paul not only visits Rome's prisons and parishes but hears confessions at St. Peter's Basilica on Good Friday; he is the first modern Pope...