Word: bordighera
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...judgments. This she does in clear, astringent prose, even though the London Dorns seem oddly disconnected and unaffected by events leading up to and including World War II. Where, for example, is the Blitz, the shortages, the concern for relations left behind on the Continent? At their hotel in Bordighera, Frederick and his wife welcome soldiers under any flag who are willing to trade food for the inn's good wines...
...paintings come, in part, from disappointed tourism. The south of France has drawn artists since Van Gogh; its blue, fouled coast is speckled with monumental names, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard. Though condos, fast-food chains and jammed autoroutes from Bordighera to the Camargue have somewhat dimmed its luster, it still possesses-especially for those who have not been there-a durable allure...
...Donald Duck become a masochist? Does the disappearance of Mickey Mouse's goodness presage a decline of the West? How much power is conveyed in "bang" and "pow"? Such weighty questions were debated last week at Bordighera, Italy, at the first international exhibition of comic strips...
...Bordighera, on the Italian Riviera...
...Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother-in-Law (El Cuñadissimo...