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...have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra Marquez/ Los Angeles, Mimi Murphy/ Rome, Sora Song/ New York and Cindy Waxer/ Toronto
When you've had enough of Rome's ancient ruins, Caravaggio paintings and Bernini buildings, drop into the De Chirico House-Museum for a bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art-like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914), which depicts the shadowy figure of a girl rolling a hoop into a piazza-and later breathed new life into the Baroque...
...Chirico's pristinely preserved two-level apartment in Rome's splendid Piazza di Spagna, where he lived for more than 30 years until his death in 1978, is an intimate way to encounter some of the artist's best-known works. A guide ushers visitors into the living area, which has been left largely as it was during De Chirico's life and displays dozens of his works. "He lived in his own museum," notes Victoria Noel-Johnson, project coordinator for the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation...
...Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder When you've had enough of Rome's ancient ruins, Caravaggio paintings and Bernini buildings, drop into the De Chirico House-Museum for a bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art - like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery...
...party are among the main attractions. Mussolini, whose party polled just over 1% in last year's European elections, trashes the euro and wants to bring back her grandfather's outlawed stiff-armed salute. Last week, she was on hunger strike in a rickety white trailer in a central Rome parking lot to protest her exclusion from next month's regional elections for allegedly submitting fraudulent ballot signatures. She claims she's being singled out in a system where signatures are rarely all authentic. "We are fighting against the power, and we're not going to let them get away...