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...Dolce Vita. Despite such problems, many of the Fifth Avenue Italians have found the vita so dolce that they are expanding to other North American cities. Gucci has long been established in Palm Beach, Chicago and Beverly Hills. Rizzoli plans to open ten stores in the next five years, starting in Chicago's Water Tower Place next month. Di Camerino opened in Dallas last October and immediately seized on the Texas style. It bought an antique Rolls-Royce to chauffeur clients to and from the airport...
...radical Communist and a great poet, or who saw his murder as a martyrdom. Pasolini was not terribly progressive, as compared with other Italian Communist poets such as Elio Vittorini, or Cesare Pavese. Pasolini's books denounced the social problems he saw around him; in "Ragazzi di Vita" ("Beach Boys of the City" and "Vita Violenta" ("Violent Life"), his two best-known prose works, he decried the barriers of class in contemporary Italy, the profound social divisions between regions, cities, even neighborhoods. His polemics against corruption, injustice, and violence at all levels of society have been compared to Zola...
...later works. Le Cenere di Gramsci written in the early fifties, already sees the world divided between an innocent proletariat (an urbanized "noble savage") and an evil, decadent bourgeoisie. His prose development follows a similar pattern; a growing rigidity of perception is apparent when one compares "Ragazzi di vita" (also written in the fifties) to "La Divina Mimesis," a parody of the Divine Comedy he was working on at his death. Pasolini always wrote in parables, but in his later work his symbols become estranged from any reality. "The Divine Mimesis" is full of wornout catchphrases of the Italian left...
...though his older brother was killed by a leftist group in a vicious slaughter--which turned out to be a tragic mistake. He supported the PCI despite the fact that they tried to disown him when his homosexuality first became known, only to reclaim him again when "Ragazzi di Vita made him famous...
...vita turned really dolce for Marisa in 1971, when Luchino Visconti signed her for her first film as the elegant young mother in Death in Venice. Bob Fosse then hired her to play the German-Jewish department store heiress in Cabaret. Both parts required Marisa to appear both remote and vulnerable. She is very good...