Word: tyrrhenian
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...papal visit to the poor and rocky island in the Tyrrhenian Sea began joyfully enough. Flying into the capital of Cagliari, Paul was welcomed by the blast of boat whistles and salvos of fresh carnations and mimosa blossoms tossed in his path. Never before had a reigning Pontiff been on the island; the last papal visitor was Pontianus, who was exiled there in A.D. 235 by the Christian-hating Emperor Maximinus Thrax...
...halls and law courts closed down, and pharmacies rationed medicines. In Turin, a third of the municipal employees were absent, and so was the city's entire squadra mobile, the elite police squad normally called out in emergencies. Two-thirds of the 1,000 residents of the tiny Tyrrhenian island of Ventotene were ill, including the only doctor...
...distance telephone calls and jet airliners. In recent months, they have been sighted holding hands at Senator Robert Kennedy's Hickory Hill party for Diplomat Averell Harriman and walking arm in arm at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands. In Positano, a lovely cliffside Italian resort on the Tyrrhenian Sea, they displayed what one observer described as "certainly a fondness...
...Tower of Cala Piccola sits on a promontory 100 miles up the Tyrrhenian coast from Rome. Built by the Saracens in the 13th century, the tower has been converted into a bar and restaurant, surrounded by secluded cottages, each with its own view of the sea. Offering near-total privacy, the tower draws those who seek escape from it all (last year, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Rates begin...
...Italy's Elsa Morante, the authoress wife of Author Alberto Moravia, Arturo was a brilliant youth whose imagination flashed all the colors of a Rimbaud. As depicted in Damiano Damiani's film version of the book, the boy seems more like the Tom Sawyer of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Nevertheless, his story is touching, and it is interpreted by all three principals with aplomb and sensibility...