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  • Il banchetto di Natale: come (non) resistere alla tentazione


    DaringToDo.comAuthority Authority: 147
    Tra gustare e gu(a)stare la differenza è tutta in una vocale, ma quella “a” è la linea che separa il piacere dall’eccesso, un confine i cui contorni, nella bulimica contemporaneità, appaiono sfocati. Il 40 per cento della spesa del Natale andrà sprecato, scriveva qualche giono fa il Corriere riferendosi ...
    1 day ago
  • Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi hospitalized after attack (Second lead)


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 724
    Rome, Dec 14 (DPA) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was bloodied and knocked to the ground by an attacker shortly after a political meeting in the Italian city of Milan Sunday.Berlusconi, who was hit in the face and bleeding profusely from the mouth, was rushed to Milan’s San Rafaelle hospital.Conflicting ...
    1 day ago
  • Teledurruti - Chissà che fine avrà fatto Umberto?


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    Condividi
    4 days ago
  • Why Italians Love to Talk About Food – Elena Kostioukovitch


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    In Why Italians Love to Talk About Food , Elena Kostioukovitch explores the phenomenon that first struck her as a newcomer to Italy: the Italian ‘culinary code’, or way of talking about food. Italians love to talk about food. The aroma of a simmering ragu, the bouquet of a local wine, the remembrance of a past ...
    4 days ago
  • ambivalence:(via baubauhaus)Love.


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    ambivalence : (via baubauhaus ) Love.
    5 days ago
  • “Vincere” di Bellocchio, è il film italiano più premiato del 2009


    DaringToDo.comAuthority Authority: 147
    Nell’era contemporanea, i film hanno tre, forse quattro o più esistenze. Una è quella che vivono partecipando ai festival (grandi o piccoli) disseminati nei quattro angoli del Pianeta. Un’altra esistenza – più o meno lunga – è data loro dalla sala cinematografica, luogo per il quale la “pellicola” ...
    6 days ago
  • Banquete Chair with Pandas by Fernando And Umberto Campana


    CubeMeAuthority Authority: 499
    This chair is created by the Campana brothers exclusively to Moss in a numbered and limited edition of 25 pieces. Fernando and Humberto Campana design through eyes that are fiercely regional, political, and socioeconomic. Their irreverence is tempered by a humility and an appreciation of the artfully poetic. ...
    1 week ago
  • Book News and Views: Writers on Writing Edition


    Books Worth ReadingAuthority Authority: 112
    Image via Wikipedia Here are a bunch of writerly links I’ve rounded up from the Interwebs: Cormac McCarthy shares his wisdom in this interview with the Wall Street Journal . My favorite quote: “Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” ...
    1 week ago
  • Best European Fiction 2010: My Series


    Fire In The BonesAuthority Authority: 114
    I believe in conversations. And the conversations I always learn the most from are those I have with people who are not too much like me. They may not blow me away (I’m afraid I’m sort of granite-like), they may not change my world (I rather like my world), and I might enjoy them more for me than for them ...
    1 week ago
  • Film and Fiction as Partners in an Authors Literary Development (Guest Blogger Jesse Bullington)


    OmnivoraciousAuthority Authority: 619
    After addressing matters relating to history and historical fiction all week I would like to wrap things up today and tomorrow with a couple of posts that relate to other aspects of my writing. Being a writer, I talk a lot about other writers, especially those who have influenced my own writing. I’m surely not the ...
    1 week ago
  • Umberto Fiorentino: nu blues fusion


    Truth In ShreddingAuthority Authority: 454
    Umberto Fiorentino guitar solo This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
    1 week ago
  • Crossed digits


    Charles LambertAuthority Authority: 124
    Ive spent too much time today trying to get our television in the kitchen to work. Or, to be more precise, trying to get our NEW television in the kitchen to work. Everything was fine until a few months ago. Wed sit and eat our lunch while cooks showed us how to tart up ten euros-worth of groceries, then watch the ...
    1 week ago
  • Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43


    Scholars and RoguesAuthority Authority: 612
    “Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over ” … “I felt at that ...
    1 week ago
  • Bookmarks for November 23-30th


    Row ThreeAuthority Authority: 482
    W hat we’ve been reading over the past week or so. A Top 10: Lengthy Tracking Shots From Godard to Scorsese. Showy Shots abound. There are plenty more to add (feel free to suggest in the comment, I am surprised they left out the big D.W. Griffith shot in Intolerance. Or for that matter, The Protector, ...
    2 weeks ago
  • "The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does..."


    Conserva tive RadicalAuthority Authority: 140
    “ The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Why We Make Lists


    Lone GunmanAuthority Authority: 572
    One of the current exhibitions being held in the Musée du Louvre, Paris has been curated by author and consistent top intellectual , Umberto Eco . The Infinity of Lists , as the exhibition is called, looks at the human fascination with lists and how they have progressed cultures . What does culture want? ...
    2 weeks ago
  • connect the dots


    japonismeAuthority Authority: 410
    how do you choose what to wear? are garments always costumes, assuring that you will be taken by others as the role you wish to fill? there are those who suggest that every single item of clothing is a choice communicated, down to the last nuance, and a statement made, down to the last whisper. me, i am driven by ...
    2 weeks ago
  • For Umberto Eco


    Going against the currentAuthority Authority: 123
    This feeling I am secretly keeping is somehow similar to that of a school girl’s infatuation for her cute classmate sitting next to her. Only that in my case, I definitely am no school girl and the object of my desire, call it lust, is far from being somebody who happens to occupy the seat [...]
    3 weeks ago
  • Tunisia sack coach Coelho


    Soccer News InfoAuthority Authority: 154
    Tunisia have sacked coach Umberto Coelho after their failure to qualify for the 2010 World Cup, the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) announced on Monday. Faouzi Benzarti was named as Coelho’s replacement with the 59-year-old Tunisian taking charge of the country’s African Nations Cup campaign in January. ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Museum Exhibitions and The Book


    Bad at SportsAuthority Authority: 467
    I’m fascinated (alas, only from afar) by the Louvre’s Special Guest program and in particular with its use of acclaimed novelists as guest curators. (I’ve posted on this program before, here ). The Louvre has featured Toni Morrison in this capacity in the past; right now, the novelist and semiotician Umberto ...
    3 weeks ago

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