Word: tuscans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quality Before Quantity. Until recently the company has avoided producing low-priced china. It did try in 1948 to mass-produce a line, but the results were unmarketable. Last year, however, Wedgwood bought Tuscan China Holdings Ltd. and the earthenware-pottery firm of William Adams. Both are quality producers in the low price range; the Wedgwood name will not appear on their products...
...came from a Jewish background and moved in a wealthy orbit in San Francisco. She considered a career as a concert pianist. Then, at the age of 30, she first laid eyes on Gertrude Stein in Paris. "She was a golden-brown presence," Alice wrote later, "burned by the Tuscan sun and with a golden glint in her warm brown hair." Together they soon set up house on the Rue de Fleurus. While Gertrude labored over her hypnotic experiments with words-the most famous being "Rose is a rose is a rose"-Alice served as cook, gardener and faithful companion...
Before then, Builder Zingone plans to head-quite literally-for the hills. Pitting pragmatism against civic pride, he is planning a residential center in the Tuscan highlands outside Florence on the theory that "after the floods last fall, Florentines would welcome a place to live safe up in the hills...
...dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned for recognition as the only legitimate heir of Emperor Franz Josef. His ground: that his father was born in 1883 to a secret marriage between a Tuscan princess and Crown Prince Rudolf...
Sandra. "These shadows . . . the sifting of ashes of a dead past." Thus whisper the winds of melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...