Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets. Suddenly the earth rumbles, hinged buildings sway and shake, a house-built like a Venetian blind-crumbles while-u-wait, a tall monument topples, is stopped just short of clobbering the spectators...
...Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. A wry, old-fashioned novel of modern Venice, concerned with such formidable matters as love, death, courage and the Fascist corruption of Italy...
...ordered around a single principle, namely, defense. Today Kahn believes that the modern city will renew itself around the principle of movement. His fertile imagination visualizes the idea in terms of a river. Great expressways would channel traffic around and beneath the city's center, raised like some Venetian island. As docks. Kahn would erect harbor buildings with parking spaces on the lower levels, a roof plaza with apartments and offices above...
...Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. A wry, old-fashioned novel of modern Venice, concerned with such formidable matters as love, death, courage and the Fascist corruption of Italy...
...Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. The canals of Venice are mocking mirrors of human folly in this wry first novel about two fascinating Italian families...