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...Turkey and Switzerland, he wrote this week's Art story on archaeological thievery. Hughes brought to the story a firsthand knowledge gained while he was living in Port' Ercole, Italy, in 1964 and 1965. It was an area settled by the ancient Etruscans, and was honeycombed with tombs. "Every farmer you met had an ancient pot or two in his house," Hughes recalls, "except the ones who were off in Tuscania making fakes. Tomb-robbing was the local cottage industry." Hughes made his contribution to the local economy. Buying Etruscan pots from farmers and amateur dealers...
Shortly after 8 a.m. last Monday, Gravedigger Jean Taraud inspected a whitewashed concrete tomb in the graveyard on He d'Yeu, a small, windswept island eleven miles off the west coast of France. "I noticed that the sand around it had been neatly swept-too neatly, considering how many visitors there always are on Sunday," said Taraud. "Then I noticed chisel marks on the tombstone. I said to my colleague: The tombstone has been lifted...
...back of a small truck. Police subsequently arrested three of Massol's alleged accomplices: they included François Boux de Casson, a former right-wing Deputy in the Assembly and once a propaganda officer in the Vichy government, and Michel Dumas, owner of a marble tomb company...
After a brief ceremony, the coffin was carried to a hearse for the clanging procession to the cemetery. At the tomb, food was placed on the coffin, in accordance with Buddhist ritual, to sustain the soul on its otherworld journey. During the graveside ceremony, the audible and visible anguish of the family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor...
...paroxysms of faith. But more is involved here than the obvious satiric bite. On the far side of sacrilege. Fellini has made an uneasy peace with the Church, ignoring questions of dogma, celebrating the wildest extremes of artifice. Ornate trappings, once the symbol of Church power, are now the tomb of its ruined power...