Italy manager Cesare Prandelli has many options, but his first priority is a team that scores.
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The writing life
Loving to write isn't the same as being able to when must, a less romantic prospect.
Demitasse semantics
The art and protocol associated with making caffè is serious business in Italy.
Unfettered
Criticism of consumer culture once emerged from the least likely place: American pop music.
Madmen
Lumet's "Network" and Beineix's "Diva" are two sides of a brilliantly hallucinogenic coin.
Fade to…
James Parker, a.ka. Logos, tries remembering pirate-radio grime while Samuel Kerridge turns brutal.
Notes on a disgrace
Silvio Berlusconi is down and out, if only he'd recognize it — which he will not
Pope John-Francis 1/2
As eloquent as Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio can sound, his papal playbook has a history.
Ready to fumble
Making a mistake is one thing, compounding it another — witness so-called "Obamacare."
Running
Visiting someplace is different from running away — what matters is admitting it.
Accattone
Pasolini's debut feature demonstrated a willingness to play by (and change) neorealist rules.
“Us pore geezers…”
In June 1918, U.S. Marines changed World War I, and American military history.