Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stinking little canals with the rubble of the tottering, infected old palaces! Let us burn the gondolas, rocking chairs for idiots." Thus Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his friends, the futurist painters, in a manifesto from 1910. It is a delicious irony that the most important exhibition in Europe this summer (or indeed anywhere else) should be a giant display of futurist paintings, sculpture, books, pamphlets, posters and memorabilia in a palace, no longer tottering, on the Grand Canal. Titled "Futurismo & Futurismi" ("Futurism and Its Offshoots," more or less), the exhibition marks the opening of the Societa per Azioni Palazzo Grassi...
...trappings lies a host of formidable social and economic woes. Last year's famine took hundreds of thousands of lives and left 4.5 million Ethiopians on the edge of starvation; most are now receiving food aid, thanks largely to Western relief programs. While rains finally broke the drought last summer, much of the population remains undernourished. In the parched northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, a simmering civil war is making already harsh conditions even worse. The government's conflict with rebels in those regions has driven out relief workers and blocked food shipments. World Vision, a California-based agency...
...main attraction is a summer outdoor repertory of three Shakespeare plays, usually unburdened by arty directorial concepts. The costumes are velvety, embroidered and heraldic. The lighting is simple. The three-story stage, with its doors and windows and stairs and balcony, serves as the set. The actors do not divert the apparent meaning of the text. This season's As You Like It does not put its actors in clown face or rely on a piece of white cloth to stand for everything from snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland...
...brave theme for a movie to take up these days, especially for one that might like to be mistaken for a summer comedy. Nothing in Common never settles into a self-confident stride, but it does dislocate, discomfit. You might remember it after a lot of less edgy films have been forgotten...
...summer school student, Diane Smothers worked part-time at the coffee shop until yesterday. She said she wouldmiss the atmosphere. "A lot of college studentswould come in and they would sit and read and dotheir homework all night," the South Carolinanative said. "Some old ladies and some oldguys--they come in every night. They don't plan tomeet there--they just meet. I don't know wherethey'll go now. Where else can you get free coffeerefills...