Word: arrigo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firing the reporters, Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli paid a visit to Libya's embassy in Rome, hoping to mollify Gaddafi. Agnelli failed dramatically. Last week the Arab League Boycott Committee in Beirut threatened a ban on all Fiat products in Arab nations unless Agnelli sacks La Stampa Editor Arrigo Levi, a Jew who once fought in the Israeli army. Agnelli is sticking with his editor. If carried out, the threat could be a serious blow to Fiat, which last year did an estimated $50 million worth of business in Arab countries. The Arab move would also set a frightening...
Every weekend Jordan and Owner-Driver Joe Arrigo, pipefitters by profession, take their machine, in which they have invested $10,000, out to race or show. Sometimes they race twice in a weekend, sleeping at small-town dragstrip motels, eating dragstrip hot dogs, breathing dragstrip fumes, building themselves up for that 6½seconds, adding up their points to qualify for the grand nationals and plotting their way to the next small town. Says Jordan: "We love speed...
THIS is a marriage that has arrived at middle age," says Italian Columnist Arrigo Levi of the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and Europe. "It needs some sexual stimulation." This year the diplomatic stimulation across the Atlantic will be more intense than it has been in years. It will take place in a changed atmosphere: the old and comfortable relationship of a protective America and a dependent Europe has given way to one of rivalry...
...shown scant faith in Britain's leaders and no interest whatsoever in its institutions, but there is broad agreement-or hope-that London might bring a refreshing new cast of mind to the EEC. "We Europeans are insecure about how to live with democratic institutions," says Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi, whose own country has had three governments in the past 18 months. "The British can help us there. They also see things on a grander scale than...
...rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became provocative productions. In 1968, for instance, Corsaro transformed the simple good-conquers-evil parable of that libretto into a chilling Gothic horror tale of clashing wills between God and the devil. A year later, Capobianco launched Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele a a space-age sonet lumière production in which the devil seemed about to vanquish the music of the spheres until he was whistled down at final curtain. Contemporary operas seldom fare well with the public, but Alberto Ginastera's atonal, astringent Bomarzo...