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FEDERICO FELLINI/7

    Fellini is also present in the co-star Paolo Villaggio, to whom he relegates the fear of the “dreadful illness, old age”, the feeling of unreality (the world does not exist, it’s an imitation, the perfect sham, a colossal scheme), the fear deriving from feeling persecuted by the phantoms …

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THE ABBOT

  JOHN THE ABBOT DEDICATES HIS BOOK TO SAINT BENEDICT – MINIATURE OF THE 175 M CODEX – DATED X CENTURY – LIBRARY, MONTECASSINO   John the abbot wears an embroidered scapular over the tunic, the cowl (cucullus) is embellished as well. These garments are imposed by the Rule of …

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CORNHUSK BAG

A Nez Percè cornhusk bag, dated at circa 1890. These skillfully woven bags were very popular objects of exchange. They were used primarily to store cama and wild turnip roots; however they also appear in the Blackfeet’s medicine bundles and they were sought after by the Crows to be used …

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HOLLYWOOD

  THE GLOBE HISTORY/7 Immediately after the war – “to be where the action is” – Globe opened an office in Hollywood which was then the unquestioned movie capital of the world. Its small band of photographers ( the first being Nate Cutler, a freelancer for a Los Angeles newpaper, …

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INTERVAL

Loveable or grumpy?  We know nothing about her …..because of her impertinent nose. GEORGE LEPAPE 1912

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