Word: sera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force that cannot be named. But of all the works in the exhibit, the one most affectionately greeted was Leash in Motion, by Boccioni's great teacher and fellow futurist, Giacomo Balla, master of both movement and humor. "We had not seen it," sighed Rome's Momento-Sera of the painting that is now owned by A. Conger Goodyear, "since 1912, when it was last exhibited here. All these works return for a brief while to please...
...weird that the experts, almost to a man, rose in revolt. "It is not the world of art.'' said Turin's outraged La Stampa, "but a world of impenetrable moors and silent, sterile landscapes." Added respected Critic Leonardo Borghese, writing in Milan's Carriere della Sera: "Ridiculous, sad, terrible. So abstract are all these works that they are beyond critical judgment...
Because Quasimodo is a longtime fellow traveler, the pro-Communist Paese Sera cheered "a just and happy decision...
Seizing at this chance to dislodge the Italian Communists from their one real toehold in Italy, the nation's anti-Communist press and politicians burst into extravagant professions of horror ("An unheard-of attempt at corruption," cried Milan's Corriere della Sera; "A horrible tale," said Turin's La Stampa). Next day Milazzo resigned. His Communist allies for the most part maintained stunned silence, but to Rome's pro-Communist Paese Sera, it was all very simple. Milazzo, declared Paese Sera, was the victim of a Mafia plot...