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...intimacy is nearly matched by their attachment to Rome-where they have spent part of every summer for the past 25 years. "We have no work plans at all right now," says Beauvoir. "We're just enjoying our vacation." As a friend describes the pair's dolce vita, "They're leading a calm life, and trying to make the most of their time-just like any retired couple...
...lined with outdoor cafes where the rich traditionally mingled with the curious. By day, the street is still busy, and tourists converge over wine and soda. But at night, the crowds no longer throng the avenue that was one of the most gay and fashionable in Europe. The dolce vita has been soured...
...those rare times when life and art not only converged but paused to entwine and intermingle. For the lovely and the loaded in Italy, La Dolce Vita of Federico Fellini's 1959 cinema masterpiece really did exist. It was served up in 1,001 nights of frenetic cafe hopping along Rome's Via Veneto, swathed in the smart fashions of Florence and Rome and recorded by swarms of flash-happy paparazzi...
Today Cinecittà stands half darkened, and la vita, even for the increasing few who can afford indulgences, is measurably less dolce. There is no dearth of luxurious living at many of the traditional haunts of wealth-from the shim mering playgrounds of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda to Rome's exclusive men's club, Circolo della Caccia, where last week as usual the preluncheon aperitifs were being served by waiters dressed in white stockings, blue knee breeches and silver-buttoned coats...
...Dolce Vita. At the Dunster House Dining Hall, Friday and Saturday...