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...fledgling journalistic career to the national level, but also gave him the material for An Italian in Britain, which became a best seller in the U.K. in 1991 and established him as a writer with global appeal. Severgnini, a fan of contradiction, prefers the term "provincial international." In La Bella Figura, Severgnini's third book to be exported from the Italian peninsula, his propensity for contradiction has found ample room. "Italy," he writes, "is the only workshop in the world that could turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis." And one into which outsiders enter at their peril. "Your Italy...
...brought up believing that anything is possible in the home of greatest empire that ever was; if it can be done anywhere, it can be done in Italy, where la vita é bella. But as it turns out, this also applies to politics. Despite the country’s precarious socioeconomic status, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi keeps doing anything and everything he wants in extreme ways that politicians elsewhere would never dare—the Italian way. The year I was born, the Italian recovery from the ashes of World War II reached its climax...
...press conference. Not used to such tumult, the Soviets stomped off the stage in anger while a scornful world watched. The Jesse Jackson score was evened by another determined woman, Avital Shcharansky, the hauntingly beautiful wife of Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, still held in a Soviet prison after eight years. Bella Abzug, the American liberal agitator, was met on Geneva's free streets by Phyllis Schlafly, a banner bearer of the right...
...where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black--the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there was no mistake: the smoke was white--bella bianca. Moments later, the Vatican Radio, which during the 1958 conclave had twice broadcast premature election bulletins, joyfully confirmed the news ... What happened at the brief conclave of 1963 is officially so secret that anyone who tells incurs an automatic excommunication removable only by the Pope. But a secret...
...crush by announcing that Nairobi's 4,000 hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum participants who had made deposits for hotel rooms were outraged to learn that their reservations were invalid. At the New Stanley Hotel, American Feminists Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan staged a friendly protest in the lobby, with Friedan joining the ousted in a chorus of We Shall Not Be Moved. Eventually, solutions were found: many women tripled up, while some transferred to spartan, $17-a-night dorm rooms on campuses around Nairobi...