In Turin, imposing landmarks, quiet moods

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THOMAS SWICK, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
12-25-2005

In Turin, imposing landmarks, quiet moods
By THOMAS SWICK, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Date: 12-25-2005, Sunday
Section: TRAVEL
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"Turin possessed certain qualities that attracted me ... absence of romantic froth, reliance above all on one's own work, an innate diffidence and reserve ... a pleasure in living that was tempered with irony, and a rational, clarifying intelligence."

-from "Stranger in Turin," by Italo Calvino

It has been Turin's fate - curse? good fortune? - to be depicted not by ...

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