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...stone. When he saw a painting of Medusa in Florence he called it "the head of a Madonna created by purgatory." He made a paper-cutout version of the Medusa's head, and pasted it onto a page in conjunction with a printed view of the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome...
From the Back. Not everybody agrees on the importance of the works. Part of the dissent is ideological. The count's title was bestowed on him by Mussolini after he made a politic gift of several statues and other art objects to the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome. Part is sheer Italian snobbery. Contini-Bonacossi was the son of peasants, who made his fortune in South America by methods that are still muffled in obscurity. When he returned to Florence, he set himself up as an art dealer and put his collection together between...
...that do not stop till they hit the waist. Bill Blass settles for the double hemline for daywear and pulls out all stops at night with a series of multilevel chiffon dresses, plus some crepes with hems that look more like jack-o'-lanterns' teeth. Giorgio di Sant'Angelo uses raw, unfinished leather in midi skirts that end up ragged, jagged, and almost Neanderthal in effect. Mollie Parnis lets her hems hang any old way, and does most of her exposing higher up, in necklines that gape open in V's, scallops, horseshoes or scoops...
Trouble began when the Pope visited the slum district of Sant' Elia on the fringes of Cagliari to demonstrate his concern for the struggling poor of Sardinia. While he was accepting gifts of fish and lobster and speaking to a crowd of 4,000 slumdwellers, a group of 20 anarchists held a protest near by. They called Paul an Antichrist, and insisted that Sant' Elia needed toilets and pharmacies more than papal visits. Police moved in to end the demonstration, and a fight broke out; 26 people were injured and 21 arrested before it was stopped. Some stones...
...opposed the Pope." Back in the Vatican, Paul used a routine audience at St. Peter's to blast the press. "They are no longer papers of information but deformation," he said. "They turned our visit upside down." Paul and his advisers were apparently worried that the confrontation at Sant' Elia might set a precedent that would encourage demonstrators to seek free publicity during future papal visits...