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...Perhaps they meant Visconti’s 1963 film of the book, so dear to food lovers for its sumptuous feasting scenes....
...Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s prime minister, said he had welcomed help from Germany, the UK and France to increase security as the country put on a show of force, flying F-35 fighter jets past oil platforms...
...The basic premise was to travel the coastline from Messina to Taormina; then on to those great lava stone rocks in Aci Trezza that appeared in Visconti’s La Terra Trema [1948] and on to Acireale, Syracuse...
...The grand ball at the end of Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is a highlight among many....
...Giuseppe Penone are also produced....
...Italian unification hero Giuseppe Garibaldi is said to have declared during the decisive battle at Calatafimi: “Here we make Italy or we die”....
...The banquet scene featuring women in men’s military uniform like in Visconti’s film The Damned, and a resplendent recreation of Raphael’s “The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila” — a CGI tableau vivant...
...“Giuseppe Conte will be a political prime minister of a political government, chosen by two political forces that include political figures within it....
...No less a coup was his publication of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s instant classic, The Leopard....
...From her small, modestly furnished bedroom, the retired opera singer looks directly on to a statue of her benefactor, Giuseppe Verdi, on Milan’s Piazza Michelangelo Buonarroti....
...The SFO charge alleges that Robert McNally, Georgina Ayres, Giuseppe Morreale, Stephen Emler and F.H....
...At Rome gallery Matèria, Giuseppe De Mattia had started with black-and-white prints of John F Kennedy and his family which he found in a flea market....
...Peter Ferdinand, 77, Marc Schweiger, 46, Stephen Emler, 48, Joerg Blumberg, 67, Dirk Juergensen, 45, Giuseppe Morreale, 61, Ralf Peterson, 72 and F.H....
...Italian shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti has created sky-high denim sandals (€595). The merchandise is playful, fun and poppy — with a dash of rock’n’roll....
...He made the trilogy partly in homage to Visconti: “I learnt from the YBAs that you have to be true to your roots or it will have a very short run.”...
...It’s even got a catchy logo: Fendi for Fountains, or FFF, a play on Fendi’s own double F. Chic, no? Fashion to the rescue – what governments cannot do, luxury can. Branded philanthropy....
...F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are not mooching by the Seine. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is not shaking his walking stick at a Montmartre hussy. It is time to see the city anew. “Merci beaucoup!”...
...Finmeccanica has halved its budget for Farnborough, is having no significant parties in London and has done away with the restaurant at its pavilion – though there will be a coffee vending machine, Giuseppe...
...The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. I love the Luchino Visconti movie of it – and I love Franco Zeffirelli movies, and I love Italy. What is your guilty pleasure?...
...There’s a magical room of miniatures, another of blissful folk paintings, still others brimming with Winslow Homers and trompe-l’oeil spectacles by William Harnett and John F Peto....
...Beethoven, Symphony No 6 in F Major “Pastoral” 5. Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major “Land of Hope and Glory” Most frequently picked non-classical discs: 1....
...I was shooting a television documentary in which the great costume designer of Visconti told everything about his life....
...No doubt, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa put something of his own personality into his fictional aristocrat....
...This subversive individuality and lingering on the old order unites figures in diverse media, from Richard Strauss (Four Last Songs represent the “theatricalisation of an old man waiting for death”) to Giuseppe...
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