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Varie ed imprevisiti
Read more: Varie ed imprevisitiPalazzos and their sidekicks. On and off in recent years the under-renovation façades of a number of historic buildings in central Rome have morphed into giant product placement caricatures. Fabric billboards with brightly-painted windows share space with handbag-toting models. Imagine a Christo-wrapped Coliseum sponsored by Prada and decorated by Richard…
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The corrections
Read more: The correctionsRome’s last English-language daily, the “International Courier,” closed in 1987. You could tell the demeanor of the devourer of political thrillers by the behavior of the two kittens quietly baking on his chest. On the day he roared they parked sleepily on their human heat pad as he read a…
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Secrets
Read more: SecretsStalinist propanganda: “Blabbing helps the enemy.” Here are a few of my oldest and most treasured secrets, each of which claims bragging rights to a story for another time: My list, while lowbrow, still does little for my presidential bid. No matter. Secrets are a heady mix of concealment and…
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Foreplay
Read more: ForeplayItalian Partisan pornography to discredit Mussolini and Hitler. War has always been the world’s greatest aphrodisiac. Remove it and what remains are sequences of intense arousal: bombs thwarted, hung elections, ash clouds, markets tumbling, a nation in economic chaos with others at risk of contagion, a titillating word by itself.…
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State of play
Read more: State of playBalotelli: Italian by way of Ghana. In Europe, matters of ethnicity and race overlap with sports. Italy is emblematic. It hosts both the bigoted Northern League, the country’s third-largest party, and Inter Milan, a strikingly diverse soccer team that will play against Bayern Munich of Germany in this month’s Champions…
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Thibault
Read more: ThibaultHi Def or low, it’s still (not) a pipe… French eccentric Philothee O’Neddy got a leg up on High Definition. No fuzzy dreams for him. He wore his glasses to bed. Most 19th century artistic dissent punned manners and science. O’Neddy’s Parisian friend, the poet Gerard de Nerval, walked his…
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