Word: arno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation for Viva's disappointing debut may be Guccione's ad hoc staff setup. Essentially the same crew that publishes Penthouse put together Viva. As the new magazine was going to press in some confusion, two senior staffers, Executive Editor Arno Karlen and Managing Editor Phyllis Seidel, resigned, complaining that Guccione repeatedly changed almost every page weeks after the closing deadline...
...hour before the wet dawn of Nov. 4, 1966, the swollen Arno River sent cataracts of water sluicing through the narrow streets of Florence and deposited half a million tons of mud, silt, rotting butchers' meat, excrement and sticky black fuel oil on the city's stone and stucco. At that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing...
...tens of thousands of readers, young and old, the first meeting of Castaneda with Juan Matus?which took place in 1960 in a dusty Arizona bus depot near the Mexican border?is a better-known literary event than the encounter of Dante and Beatrice beside the Arno. For Don Juan's teachings have reached print at precisely the moment when more Americans than ever before are disposed to consider "non-rational" approaches to reality. This
...seven-man faculty of San Francisco Baptist Theological Seminary was disturbed last spring when its president, Arno Weniger, suddenly cut off all paychecks, pleading lack of funds. Weniger was annoyed when five of the teachers took legal steps to recover $10,695 in back pay. After all, he argued, their yearly contracts of $7,200 were precisely qualified with the stipulation that "payment shall be as the Lord provides." The simple fact was, he told a hearing by the state labor commissioner, that the Lord...
...novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself rendered in The Last Angry Man, crashes an international literary conference in Paris. Bloodworth, of course, is snubbed by the heavyweights, who are presented by Green as obvious caricatures of real writers, most notably the Mailer-like wild man named Arno Flackman and a cloudy Sontag named Lila Metrick...