Gabriele Santoro
Maria Daniela Basile
aL Rinaldi
Authoritarian regimes often used sports, especially football, for propaganda. For example, Mussolini did it in the 1934 World Cup, and was “copied” by Brazil in 1950 – except they lost the final match. Other times the kermesse is created out of nothing. This is the case of the Gold Cup played in Uruguay between 1980 and 1981. A basically useless competition, wanted by the deviated Masonic Lodge P2 and the Uruguayan dictatorship…
She makes one movie every 5 – 10 years, but when it comes out… she strikes again: Miranda July with her third feature film “Kajillionaire”, presented for schools at the Rome Film Festival. In Italian it is presented with the addition of the subtitle “La truffa è di famiglia!”, (“The scam is in the family!”), trying to put a meaning next to a word that has none even in English… pure American slang to indicate “someone absurdly rich”. After billions and trillions, only the “ka-jing” sound from the comics remained! It could be heard when the old cash registers were opened…
Veniva rappresentato come un bambino in braccio a un vecchio, a indicare il passato che accoglie il futuro, il cerchio della vita; oggi l’immagine che più comunemente lo descrive è quella dei fuochi d’artificio… che proprio quest’anno, per la prima volta, non avranno luogo in varie città del mondo, tra cui Roma. La città che diede i natali al “primo Capodanno”, diventando ben presto la festa più diffusa su tutta la Terra. Anche se non per tutti cade il 1 Gennaio, tutte le culture rimandano alla fortuna e prosperità…
Il Natale è festeggiato in 160 Paesi del mondo, anche non cristiani, e ognuno con le sue peculiarità, anche diametralmente opposte, dagli abeti alle palme di Natale. Ed è proprio questo il bello di una Festa che accomuna miliardi di persone, appartenenti a religioni diverse, viste le sue radici antiche e universali da “festa d’inverno”…
Nonostante il nome in comune, i pirati di oggi non hanno molto a che spartire con quelli del passato, se non l’etimologia stessa del termine inteso come “assaltare”. E difficilmente scalzeranno i classici, vedendosi dedicati tanti giochi, riferimenti, letteratura e cinematografia di avventura in cui parteggiare per i protagonisti…
Japanese women obtained two important sport achievements, 1964 Olympic volley and 2011 football world cup, that went beyond a normal success. Those victories helped an entire country to lift up the national spirit in delicate moments…
Dopo circa 2 secoli in cui il giornalismo veniva incensato e portato su un palmo di mano, dall’avvento di internet sta invece soffrendo di uno stereotipo tutto al contrario. Da “cani da guardia” della vita democratica, i giornalisti sono diventati i “galoppini del potere”: una professione di privilegiati (“la casta”), venduti (solo alcune notizie e solo in un certo modo), sensazionalisti al limite del sadico (perché vende) e che addirittura contribuisce alle fake news (ci cascano anche loro!)…
“Stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination are often conceived as correlated, even if they express different concepts: stereotypes are a cognitive component, it is how our brain normally handles information, often without real awareness; prejudice is the affective component of this “stereotype”; finally, discrimination is the behavioral part that follows the prejudicial reactions”…
There was a reason if before 1872, when the Challenger Expedition was over, it was thought that the oceanic abyss was inhabited. How can a living being survive without solar energy and light and with an unbearable pressure? Then the British oceanographic study brought to light thousand of undiscovered species and that started a slow yet inexorable progress in scientific research, adding more and more pieces to the puzzle…
“Maybe Hell is the inability to change things. Instead faith made us see Heaven”. A kamikaze speaks and does so in the book by Mahi Binebine, a former student and professor of mathematics in Paris and today a painter and writer in New York. Born in Marrakech in 1959…
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story”.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The apartment is in an 19th century building, recently restored, along one of the most elegant and fashionable streets of the city, famous for its clothes shops, the theatre and bars. It's the big avenue that marks the northern limit of the ancient neighborhood in Roma, the legendary Rione Monti, full of alleys, churches and small squares. New meeting point for young people, few steps away from the Colosseum. The possibility to live the two souls of Roma, so big and cozy, The Great Beauty ! :-)
