Word: vitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
...Gobbler works, we will lose a bit in the bargain. The instructive messages in public toilets, the phone numbers, the lively anatomical drawings-no loss in any of that. But some things will be missed. The desperate erudition on the walls of college hangouts, for example: ARS LONGA; VITA HERRING. The continuing message exchanges will also disappear...
...economy sags, the governement wobbles, but la vita is dolce...
...most Italians do not seem concerned about whether the economy dips the government falls or the shootouts take place in the Prime Minister's Chigi Palace. Italy is a living paradox: the more its political and economic life deteriorates, the more its citizens seem to enjoy la dolce vita. As distress from terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well. Explains...
...sometimes tarnished or alloyed. Virginia Woolf, who was married at 30, sadly reported that the orgasm had been immensely exaggerated. "It is a great thing being a eunuch as I am," she insisted. But she was not, and she had at least one lesbian affair, with fellow Author Vita Sackville-West...