Word: umbertos
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...choices that readers make when interpreting texts are like the choices Little Red riding hood made as she wandered through the woods, said Italian author and semiologist Umberto Eco to a standing room only crowd at Sanders Theatre...
With traditional parties like the Socialists and Christian Democrats discredited, voters are seeking alternatives. The big winner has been the Northern League, the populist movement that has ranted against official corruption for years. Founder Umberto Bossi once wanted to partition Italy into two or three separate states. Now that his party is Italy's third most powerful, he calls instead for greater regional autonomy...
...Umberto Baldini and Ornella Casazza (Abrams; $125). Now, after years of dedicated labor, the frescoes in the Florentine chapel look as they did in the Renaissance. The biblical figures painted by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi glow anew in this testament to religious faith, artistic genius and scientific restoration...
...with this intellectual "freedom," Alf takes his liberty in spinning James Buchanan's story with Updike's fictional sense of character, scene, detail and above all, sexual frustration. Historical fiction is all the rage these days--from Umberto Eco to Susan Sontag and now to Updike. The "facts" may not be true, but maybe it's more interesting that way. There isn't much of a market for books on Buchanan--even in his home town--but Updike's book will deservedly land on best seller lists...
...Volcano Lover, her fifth work of fiction, is a mild cerebral aphrodisiac. It is the sort of book that Sontag would probably call determinedly middlebrow. Her publisher, eager to start a buzz, compares it to "the postmodern potboilers of Umberto Eco and A.S. Byatt...