Word: antonia
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...Antonia Brico--female orchestra conductor, Dunster...
Through a crack in a shutter, he can look directly into the bedroom of his wife Antonia, a lovely, pale, sexless creature (Antonelli again) who suffers from hysterical paralysis. What does he see? Antonia bounds out of bed and, thinking that her husband is dead, bravely undertakes to continue his wine business. As she does this, she discovers both his idealism and his mistresses, neither of which she knew of before. She takes up sex and pamphleteering, and soon, under Luigi's flabbergasted eyes, is rolling about with an as sortment of lovers, male and female...
After turning out several fat but never fatuous biographies of famous Britons (Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell) Woman-About-England Lady Antonia Fraser has focused on the topic dearest to her heart: love. The former wife of Conservative M.P. Hugh Fraser-and the current companion of Playwright Harold Pinter-says she loves nothing more than to give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings...
Line one of Chapter 1 consists of three of the Italian language's least printable words, strung together in a scatological drumbeat. The chapter then depicts Antonia, the 16-year-old heroine of the story, masturbating as she falls asleep. In the course of the next 185 pages, she and Rocco, her 17-year-old boy friend, sample a farrago of sex, including sodomy and homosexual affairs. But sex is only one of the reasons that the novel Winged Pig* has become a sensational bestseller in Italy...
...left youth. Written by Lidia Ravera, 25, a journalist for a counterculture magazine called Muzak, and Marco Lombardo-Radice, 27, a psychologist who specializes in working with teenagers, Winged Pigs shows that today's students are rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk that doesn't mean anything." Tired of total sexual freedom, the lovers settle down together for a while, thus typifying a trend that Italian sociologists have labeled "a return to the steady couple...