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Love is the seed from which the story germinates. The first half of the film--which takes places against the beautiful landscape of a Tuscan village in the early 1940s--follows Benigni's character, a hapless, intelligent and endearing waiter named Guido, as he courts a local schoolteacher, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi). Dora, who is engaged to a Fascist official, falls for his antics from the start, though it takes time for her to decide to leave her other life behind...
Celebrants ate a lunch of Tuscan wraps beneatha tent decorated with festive Radcliffe balloonsand banners while listening to performances by theRadcliffe Choral Society, the Kuumba Sisters, the'Cliffe Notes and the Radcliffe Pitches...
After generations of how-to books, the Dummies and Idiot's books seem to have caught on, thanks in part to the decade's obsession with faux connoisseurship--the need to know enough about Tuscan cooking or single-malt Scotch to not be an embarrassment at parties. But the blunt titles, with a wink at the reader, are a comforting reassurance that no one who picks up these books need apologize for having to start from scratch. "Would we have been able to laugh at ourselves enough to pick a book with the word idiot in the title...
Currently Harvard's only international outpost--if even such a term is appropriate--is Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Housed in a sixteenth-century villa and surrounded by 75 acres of Tuscan farmland, I Tatti is home to the University's Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. University officials say that the outposts being considered won't compare...
...Goodbye Tuscan Hummus and hello Potato Skins...