Word: sante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prodigy. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso was born at Malaga, under the sign of Scorpio, on Oct. 25, 1881. His mother claimed that the first word he uttered was "piz"-baby talk for lapiz or pencil. "When I was twelve," the artist boasted later, "I could draw like Raphael." He could not, of course. But when he was 15, he had already exhausted the limits of academic teaching, as is amply shown in The Altar Boy, 1896 (No. 1 in TIME's survey...
There are only a few total dissenters to the classic concept, and one is Giorgio di Sant'Angelo, who is something of a constant rebel. "Fashion people think it will save the dress business, but it ain't gonna save it," he says. "Who wants an old-fashioned dress? Women won't buy the same dress they bought in the '40s and pay three times as much for it." As his alternative, Sant'Angelo is offering bright colors in an Oriental ambience. "My new clothes have a feeling of the Chinese," he says. "But modern...
Nearly every resident of the small Sicilian winegrowing village of Sant'Alfio last week joined the procession up the fuming, rumbling mountain. Praying, singing hymns and carrying relics of their patron saints, the villagers advanced to within a few yards of the glowing, smoking wall of lava. As his flock knelt before the threatening stream, Sant'Alfio's parish priest, Don Francesco Parisi, tilted his head skyward and implored God to "send away this menace from us and from our homes...
...tongues of lava engulfed the old three-story cement-and-stone volcanological observatory near the top of the mountain and bent the pylons of an aerial tramway into uselessness. The fiery streams rolled over protective rock dikes placed in their path, ignited valuable fruit trees like matchsticks and threatened Sant'Alfio and at least one other village on the highly populated, fertile slopes. Total damage so far: about...
...week's end Sant'Alfio was evacuated in advance of the relentless lava. Lacking any help from the scientists, the people of the mountain could only continue to beseech their saints for help in cooling Vulcan's fiery forge...