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...book Los Dias y Los Anos on the 1968 movement, student leader Gonzalez de Alba tells of an encounter with an SDS member of Berkeley. The American could not understand why the Mexican students always spoke so reverently of their constitution whenever they attacked their government. Alba's answer reflected a nationalistic regard for the ideals of his constitution which would have become Daniel Webster. The SDS member then asked why the Mexicans struggled for such limited, reformist goals. Alba retorted that what might appear as liberal goals in other countries are truly revolutionary when applied to Mexico...
...masterpieces. The fact that the Cezanne, next to Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Bend (which cost about $5,000,000) is the costliest new picture in Washington does not mean it can be "put up against" Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Raphael's Alba Madonna, or even the museum's other and better Cezannes. Its interest is mainly historical. Cezannes of this date are rare. Even the ineptitudes of this gawkily powerful portrait-such as the clumsy handling of the trousers and the armchair-have a certain interest in the context of Cezanne...
...Julie Christie, Mary Quant and the cast of Hair have all left theirs on English cutting-room floors. In Paris, the Duchess of Windsor, Mme. Herve Alphand and Claudia Cardinale have gone for Alexandre's version of the style; Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren settled for Apelike wigs. Alba of Rome's Alba & Francesca (who fittingly names the cut "dégradé") has left Queen Anne Marie of Greece a shaggy exile, and last week even Ingrid Bergman went Ape at the hands of Giorgio of the Via Borgognona...
...Marton, was released after enduring 18 years of prison and house arrest. Shortly thereafter, Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer paid a visit to the Vatican. Last March, Bishop Marton himself was finally allowed to visit Rome. Major, state-subsidized restoration has begun on the 13th century Catholic Cathedral of Alba Iulia. Here, the tiny, white-haired bishop, now 84, celebrates Mass every Sunday, as martyr and witness to the vagaries of Rumanian religious policy...
Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few. The results have made Oriana, at 37, Italy's leading woman journalist with a following in many other countries as well. She has just published a collection of her interviews...