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Tiro (novice) or not, brandishing a sizeable arma lusoria (wooden sword) and aiming strategically at the stomach of his lanista (trainer), my 12-year-old son Theo cuts an impressive swath as a gladiator-in-training. Far more real than reading a textbook about life in classical Rome, taking a two-hour course in the rigors of gladiatorial combat was a brilliant way for an enthusiastic Latin student to get the most from a school-holiday visit to Rome...
Berlusconi's surprise announcement was in large part an attempt to respond to the fusion of the two largest parties from the ruling coalition into the newly christened Democratic Party, headed by Rome's popular mayor Walter Veltroni. But hope for any such similar merger on the center-right was quickly squashed by Berlusconi's purported allies. Leader of the second-largest opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version...
Change is everywhere. In the museum's ancient Greek and Roman gallery, for instance, the floor-to-ceiling windows had been walled up for 20 years. Comparing the light of Los Angeles to the light of Rome, Govan took down the wall. He also weighed in on the placement of key sculptures and, when it came to the gallery floor, encouraged curator Mary Levkoff to look at the ebony stain on the wood floor the director was having refurbished in his own home...
...which were intended to be performed on radio, were recorded on audio last night, while the third play, intended for television, was videotaped. The recordings are going into Harvard’s archives. Scanlan said in an interview that he hoped to bring the show to New York, Paris, Rome, and Dublin. He said that performing Beckett as part of the New College Theatre’s inaugural series represents an auspicious beginning. “I personally think it sacralizes the place to perform Beckett here,” he said. “I just think doing Beckett...
...kitsch, climaxing last month in the Great Medal Screwup. It turned out that all the Olympic medals, the bronze and the silver as well as the gold, had been designed to feature not the Parthenon in Athens, not even the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, but the Colosseum in Rome, less noted for Olympic-style friendship than for gladiatorial butchery. What the hell, the officials of the Sydney Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games apparently reasoned; it's still the ancient world, right? Then it befell some luckless S.O.C.O.G. flack to claim it wasn't meant to be the Colosseum...